On winter mornings, clouds of steam can sometimes be seen rising from Jackson's Coppice. This has always been assumed to be an indication that the dragon is stirring. However, recent research suggests that it may not be a dragon at all, but a Jabberwock. It will be recalled that "the Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, came whiffling through the tulgey wood, and burbled as it came". Jackson's Coppice is clearly a tulgey wood, so we have an appropriate habitat. Identification would seem to depend on whether the creature, whatever it is, burbles while advancing. To date there have been no reports of burbling in Jackson's Coppice, but please post a reply if you have heard any.
Maybe the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust have looked into this? Among their many excellent noticeboards is one which contains the wistful aspiration that there may be otters in Jackson's Marsh, but there is no mention of dragons or Jabberwocks, though they are in the same rank of probability.
If it is a Jabberwock, does anyone have a vorpal sword?
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Snicker-snack! Now listen, my beamish boy. Such tales are but fantasy. Everyone knows there's no Jabberwock in the woods. 'Tis the panting and groaning of the Hippogriff as it tries to work out how to fly with its eagle's wings, when it has the weight of the body of a horse. Tricky puzzle for it, you must understand.
And I thought they were just yer common or garden buzzards...
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