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Specific term required. Henry H. Tryon described how stories of these beings were spun with a combination of a “colorful bit of description” and “an arresting sport of personal experience” by veteran workers teasing newbies. Tryon’s text on these beings illustrates a cat with a mechanical-jointed (15[1])arm grasping a bird. An earlier field guide to these beings was dedicated to the “Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo” (15[1])by William Thomas Cox. (-5[1])These beings include a thorn-covered alcoholic cat and a snake that grasps its tail in its own mouth and rolls (-5[1])around like a (*) hoop. (-5[1])Another (-5[1])one of these beings is hyper aware of its wart-covered skin and can thus be tracked by its tear-stained trail. Such beings may have been encountered by figures like Sourdough Sam and Johnny Inkslinger. For 10 points, the wampus cat and squonk are among what fantastical animals described in the tall tales of lumberjacks? ■END■ (10[3])

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