The Google Book
FAR! FAR away, the Google lives, in a land which only children can go to. It is a wonderful land of funny flowers, and birds, and hills of pure white heather.
[...]
The sun is setting ?
Can't you hear
A something in the distance
Howl!!?
I wonder if it's ?
Yes!! it is
That horrid Google
On the prowl!!! --V.C. Vickers, 1913
--The Google Book (Google Blogoscoped)
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