| frill, finch, voyage, runoff, ran for office.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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The Voyage of the Beagle was an historic trip,
ReplyDeleteChronicled by Charles Darwin, as naturalist!
A journey around the world from England shore,
A surveying and exploring lands and island tour!
Galapagos was the key to the epiphany
To natural selection and evolution theory!
Charles had run off to see and study the world
And ran into solutions that millennia unfurled!
Examination of birds were what gave the clue.
Finch beaks filled the office they needed to do.
Different foods, divergent means without frills
Had caused them to select different shaped bills!
I loved your Darwin poem, Owen. I wrote a book many years ago called "Beasts of the Modern Imagination" which had a chapter on Darwin, even though the book was about animals in literature. And I loved the way you worked all the clue words into that lovely poem--many thanks.
ReplyDeleteI had no trouble at all with this puzzle and got all four words. Only I couldn't believe how the solution was going to have all those F letters, but it did. Fun cartoon and fun answer (more F letters).
With finch in there it pretty much had to be either Darwin of "To kill A Mockingbird", and add in voyage...
ReplyDeleteI too found the Jumble fairly simple. The poem was clever, interesting, and educational -- a trifecta!
ReplyDeleteOne more thing: I don't get the change in type of picture. Not really a cartoon any more. New artist?
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