Q. Are “hollyanders” rabbits or ducks? And what are “fitzbergers” anyway? And “Canadian squidgins”?

A. The answer to your first question is neither; they are a new breed of goat, with forelocks on their chins. Keen interest in being displayed in them, since they may eat plastic. As for Canadian squidgins, they are in between a frog and a hard place: they are a mammalian insect that makes a soft plopping noise when it hits the water, trying to escape from I don’t know what. But you hear the sound quite often in the cottonwoods of upper Manitoba, and occasionally in Saskatchewan…. Coming back to fitzbergers, I never heard of them before, or never met them. I think you may be confusing them with the -geralds or -randolphs or -gibbonses. Say hello to Maud.