There I found him again, still reading-Swedenborg this time-with most of the old things about him, including the Duck-billed platypus; for nobody, apparently, had shown sufficient interest in them.
"Waiting for Daylight"
Henry Major Tomlinson
It is called a platypus-there wuz four on 'em.
"Samantha at the World's Fair"
Marietta Holley
Water-rats sported in the lily-bespangled stream, and a platypus basked, on the bank.
"Tropic Days"
E. J. Banfield