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A is for Arliss,

...a mellow armadillo from Amarillo, who, one spring, all sad and lonely, plodded the prairie from Pampa to Plainview in search of a mate to share his fate and pillow. Down in the Breaks and up in the wheat fields Arliss wandered, past gophers and rattlers, through feedlots and cornfields and hog wallows, 'til autumn augured winter was coming. He wanted a she; it wasn't to be, Poor Arliss, the mellow armadillo from Amarillo.

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