A Plea for the Domestication of the Unicorn

ANONYMOUS

A Plea for the Domestication of the Unicorn

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First mentioned in Aubrey Beardsley’s Under the Hill (itself imaginary, an unfinished work)

This pamphlet was discovered by the Abbé Fanfreluche “in Helen’s library,” during a visit to Venusberg. A passionate exhortation for attention to the plight of the unicorn and its impending extinction. The unknown author makes the case for domestication as the only practical solution for the protection of the animal, noting that the last recorded sighting was by Dr. Olfert Dapper, who saw one in the north woods of Maine in 1673.