What's this about?

[victor steinbok]

Sorry--punched too quickly again--it's a Grimm fairy tale that's been used
as a take-off point for a fairly large number of stories. None of them are
pre-1839, but they do indicate a bit more than mere petrels. The book I
cited certainly would not have been available to Noah directly--as it was
written 75 years later.

VS-)

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:03 AM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

> You're making it too complicated. My first thought was that it was a
> children's book. Sure enough, it's a Grimm fairy tale.
>
> http://goo.gl/jYMkP
>
> VS-)
>

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