Jim Smiley owned one that was fed quail shot named Dan'l Webster, who was celebrated in Calaveras County.  
In "I'm nobody-Who are you?" Emily Dickinson compares being "somebody" to being "public" like one of these entities.  Assistant Bank Chief Katagiri and a "Super" one team up to save Tokyo from an earthquake in a Murakami short story.  Gabriela Mistral's children's works are usually translated as Crickets and these.  In a work with this word in its title, eight men are dressed as orangutans and set on fire by the titular jester, and the sound of water is the heard after one enters the old pond in a Matsuo Basho work.  Jim Smiley owned one that was fed quail shot named Dan'l Webster, who was celebrated in Calaveras County.  FTP, name these creatures that like to go "Brekekekex koax koax" in a namesake Aristophanes work.
In "I'm nobody-Who are you?" Emily Dickinson compares being "somebody" to being "public" like one of these entities.  
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