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B. C. + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic + +Author: F. B. C. + +Release Date: June 2, 2008 [EBook #25681] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE QUADRUPEDS' PIC-NIC *** + + + + +Produced by David Wilson and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<hr class="pg" /> + + +<h1 class="newpg"><a name="png.001" id="png.001"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">1</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span><small>THE</small><br + />QUADRUPEDS’ PIC-NIC</h1> + +<p class="publisher"><img src="images/illus-001-s.jpg" width="101" height="154" + alt="Publisher's device" title="Publisher's device" /><br + /><big>LONDON</big><br + />WILLIAM PICKERING<br + /><small>1840</small></p> + + +<p class="printer"><a name="png.002" id="png.002"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">2</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>C. Whittingham, Tooks Court,<br + />Chancery Lane.</p> + + + + +<div class="main"> +<h2><a name="png.003" id="png.003"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">3</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>ADVERTISEMENT</h2> + + +<p><span class="smc">The</span> “Quadrupeds’ Pic-Nic” is a very humble imitation +of Mrs. Dorset’s “Peacock at Home.” Even +in my imitation I find I am not original. The Quadrupeds, +it appears, have already had an “Elephants’ +Ball,” and a “Lions’ Masquerade.”</p> + +<p class="rt pgbrk">F. B. C.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="png.005" id="png.005"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">5</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>THE QUADRUPEDS’ PIC-NIC.</h2> + + +<div class="poem pgbrk"> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent0"><span class="drop">N</span>O doubt you have heard how the grasshoppers’ feasts</div> +<div class="indent0">“Excited the spleen of the birds and the beasts;”</div> +<div>How the peacock and turkey “flew into a passion,”</div> +<div>On finding that insects “pretended to fashion.”</div> +<div>Now, I often have thought it exceedingly hard,</div> +<div>That nought should be said of the beasts by the bard;</div> +<div>Who, by some strange neglect, has omitted to state</div> +<div>That the quadrupeds gave a magnificent fête;</div> +<div>So, out of sheer justice I take up my pen,</div> +<div>To tell you the how, and the where, and the when.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">The place which they chose was a wild chestnut ground,</div> +<div>(And many such spots in the new world are found,)</div> +<div><a name="png.006" id="png.006"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">6</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Where the evergreen oak and the cucumber trees</div> +<div>Rear aloft their tall branches, and wave in the breeze;</div> +<div>Where the hickory, cypress, and cabbage-tree grow,</div> +<div>And shade the sweet flowers that blossom below;</div> +<div>And the creepers and vines form a beautiful sight,</div> +<div>As they climb the tall shaft, and hang down from a height;</div> +<div>Or they mix with the long pendant moss which is found</div> +<div>Growing high on the branches, yet touching the ground:</div> +<div>From amidst the dark foliage the mocking-birds sing,</div> +<div>Or mimic the hum of the honey-bees’ wing,</div> +<div>As they whirl round a flower enjoying the feast,</div> +<div>So unsparingly spread for bird, insect, or beast.</div> +<div>From afar the bald eagle is seen in the sky,</div> +<div>Now darting below, and now soaring on high;</div> +<div>Now he takes from the fish-hawk his newly caught prey,</div> +<div>And with speed to the forest he bears it away;</div> +<div>Whilst the wood is alive with a feathery throng,</div> +<div>Who from morning till night fill the air with their song.</div> +<div>On one side is the lake where the wild cattle drink,</div> +<div>And trample the rice which grows wild on its brink;</div> +<div>The freshness untouch’d of earth’s beauties declare,</div> +<div>Neither pride, pomp, nor envy, have ever been there;</div> +<div><a name="png.007" id="png.007"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">7</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Here Nature resides—nothing human is seen;</div> +<div>Foot of man hath not pass’d o’er that prairie I ween,</div> +<div>Unless some few wandering Indians have pass’d—</div> +<div>Of their sorrowing tribe perhaps nearly the last.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">I should fail to describe in a picturesque manner</div> +<div>The splendid repose of that grassy Savanna;</div> +<div class="triple">Tall shadows swept out from the forest of pine,<span + class="ns"> }</span></div> +<div class="triple">The site was a fair one, the weather so fine,<span + class="ns"> </span><span + class="bigmo"> <big>}</big></span></div> +<div class="triple">That even a quadruped thought it divine.<span + class="ns"> }</span></div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">To this wild grassy spot, on the long look’d for day,</div> +<div>Merry parties of beasts made the best of their way;</div> +<div>There were bears, long and short-legg’d, black, brown, grey, and white,</div> +<div>From different parts, to enjoy the fine sight.</div> +<div>The polar bear came in a sledge, and she said</div> +<div>That the journey had caused a sharp pain in her head:</div> +<div>For, although well protected from snout to her tail,</div> +<div>She thought she had got a slight “coup-de-soleil;”</div> +<div>So she hastily called for a gallon of ice,</div> +<div>Which a monkey in waiting served up in a trice.</div> +<div><a name="png.008" id="png.008"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">8</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Then the jaguar, the couguar, and fierce Ocelot,</div> +<div>And Sir Hans Armadillo, who came at full trot,</div> +<div>Brother Jonathan Beaver, escaped from the trappers,</div> +<div>Sloth, Tortoise, and Dormouse, notorious nappers.</div> +<div>That beau, the musk-Ox, with his long scented hair,</div> +<div>And John Bull just arrived on his travels, were there;</div> +<div>Messrs. Martin, Hare, Squirrel, the Ermine, and Stoat,</div> +<div>And the rock-mountain sheep, with his cousin, the goat;</div> +<div>Then the sociable marmot, and tiny shrew mouse,</div> +<div>The raccoon and agouti from hollow-tree house.</div> +<div>Chinchilla the soft, musk and Canada rats,</div> +<div>Hounds, mastiffs, wolves, foxes, and wild tiger cats;</div> +<div>Jerboa just roused from his long winter nap,</div> +<div>Opossum, with four little babes in her lap.</div> +<div>The morse, seal, and otter—amphibious group!</div> +<div>And of bisons (the humpbacked) there came a whole troop.</div> +<div>It seems that the elk out of pride staid away,</div> +<div>Having just shed his horns, which he does about May.</div> +<div>The fallow and red-deer were gone to a lick,</div> +<div>With a numerous party, who thought themselves sick;</div> +<div>But the antelope, stag, and the Wapiti deer,</div> +<div>Notwithstanding the age of the latter, were there.</div> +<div><a name="png.009" id="png.009"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">9</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>The Esquimaux dogs, red, white, brindled, and black,</div> +<div>Who, for fear of the wolves, had arrived in a pack,</div> +<div>Were not heard to speak in the course of the day,</div> +<div>And were thought by the rest “to have nothing to say.”</div> +<div>But if they were silent, ’twas clear they could growl,</div> +<div>And on meeting the wolf, gave a wild dismal howl;</div> +<div>For although ’twas supposed they were slightly connected,</div> +<div>In quarrels and fights they’d been often detected;</div> +<div>Though ’tis true, all dislikes for this day were forbidden,</div> +<div>Yet mutual antipathies could not be hidden.</div> +<div>Noble horses of Spanish extraction there came,</div> +<div>The chief of whose party was terribly lame;</div> +<div>For it seems that in one of his frolicsome scampers,</div> +<div>Beneath a hot sun in the wide spreading Pampas,</div> +<div>By the rich purple fruit of the Cactus allured,</div> +<div>And feeling a thirst that could not be endured,</div> +<div>He approach’d it to eat, but his nose was not proof</div> +<div>Against the sharp thorns, so he struck with his hoof,</div> +<div>When they pierced his bare foot, and so now he limp’d in</div> +<div>With his fetlock bound up in a garter-snake’s skin:</div> +<div>The vampire-bat, surgeon, now offered to bleed it,</div> +<div>In case as he thought his poor patient would need it;</div> +<div><a name="png.010" id="png.010"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">10</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>And added, at least it could do him no harm</div> +<div>To try his specific, the juice of the palm.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">From the South came the puma, American lion,</div> +<div>Of the old house of Leo degenerate scion.</div> +<div>The tapir, and also that excellent diver,</div> +<div>Alligator, or Cayman, from Amazon river;</div> +<div>And with him the Llama, whose sad trick of spitting</div> +<div>Was thought by the company very unfitting.</div> +<div>But, to shorten my tale, all the New World were there,</div> +<div>From the tiny shrew mouse to the fierce grisly bear;</div> +<div>Though it seems that the peccary was not invited,</div> +<div>For he as a nuisance had just been indicted.</div> +<div>From the Old World, the lion and tiger with glee</div> +<div>Would have join’d them, but dreaded the journey by sea.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">Beneath some fine trees, on the beautiful green,</div> +<div>A knot of philosophers was to be seen</div> +<div>Looking gravely about, and conversing together;</div> +<div>Some on learning and science, and some on the weather.</div> +<div>Dr. Mole on geology talk’d in high strain,</div> +<div>And declared his researches had not been in vain,</div> +<div><a name="png.011" id="png.011"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">11</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>And that many geologists would have been glad</div> +<div>To have found opportunities such as he had;</div> +<div>For whilst searching for food in his underground travel,</div> +<div>Midst fossils, roots, shells, hid in chalk, sand, or gravel,</div> +<div>He the monstrous remains of great mammoths had seen,</div> +<div>Who no longer existed, but who once had been;</div> +<div>“The theories about them are various,” said he,</div> +<div>“As to how they came there, and what they may be;</div> +<div>But not one of these I incline to receive,</div> +<div>For that they were elephants, who can believe?</div> +<div>There was one Mr. Cuvier, who talk’d of the sloth,</div> +<div>But to listen to nonsense like this I am loth;</div> +<div>From the strength of their limbs, and the make of their paws,</div> +<div>From the shape of their bodies, and length of their claws,</div> +<div>I am firmly convinced they’re related to me,</div> +<div>And to this all philosophers ought to agree;</div> +<div>For how could such creatures have got into holes,</div> +<div>Unless, (’tis my theory,) they had been moles?”</div> +<div>He ceased, then just turn’d his diminutive eyes,</div> +<div>First round to the company, then to the skies,</div> +<div>And receiving applause from all who sate round,</div> +<div>He threw up his hill, and escaped underground.</div> +<div><a name="png.012" id="png.012"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">12</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Signor Greyhound, a foreigner, talk’d of the swamps,</div> +<div>Of the ague and fever, both caused by the damps;</div> +<div>Then quickly proceeded the climate to quiz,</div> +<div>And exclaim’d, “In Italia we’ve nothing of this!”</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">Mr. Hog said that he had sent over his daughter</div> +<div>To England, to have all the sciences taught her;</div> +<div>And learned she was, all the world must allow,</div> +<div>For the Savants pronounced her a wonderful sow.</div> +<div>She was heard to grunt forth an unwilling apology,</div> +<div>For daring to boast of her skill in Nosology,</div> +<div>And presuming to hint what a dab she’d been found,</div> +<div>At <em>extracting the root</em>, whether <em>square root</em>, or round.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">Some beavers complain’d of that biped call’d man,</div> +<div>Who does to their race all the harm that he can,</div> +<div>Some of whom, not long since, came to kidnap and pillage</div> +<div>The whole of their neighbouring water-bound village,</div> +<div>And they guess’d the snake-Indians caught many a score,</div> +<div>To stew down the tails for their great Sagamore.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">The hedgehog, who always lies snug in his nest,</div> +<div>Till his fourfooted neighbours betake them to rest,</div> +<div><a name="png.013" id="png.013"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">13</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Now changed his old custom for once in a way,</div> +<div>Unroll’d his warm nose, and came forth in the day.</div> +<div>He sought for the cow, and implored the good dame</div> +<div>Would find out some means to restore his fair fame,</div> +<div>For there still was prevailing a cruel belief</div> +<div>That oft in the night he came forth as a thief;</div> +<div>So he lived in continual danger and strife,</div> +<div>Though he never had tasted her milk in his life.</div> +<div>On the faith of a hedgehog he dared to affirm,</div> +<div>That he seldom found courage to injure a worm.</div> +<div>Mrs. Cow was astonish’d; she never had heard</div> +<div>A report more untrue, a belief so absurd.</div> +<div>She urged that his mouth was too little by half</div> +<div>To steal the sweet milk that she meant for Miss Calf;</div> +<div>And concluded by saying, “’Tis surely enough</div> +<div>To mention (excuse me) your coat is so rough,</div> +<div>If even supposing that you should not fear me,</div> +<div>I never could suffer your skin to come near me.”</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">An old porcupine, too, just begg’d leave to observe,</div> +<div>That reports had been spread which he did not deserve;</div> +<div><a name="png.014" id="png.014"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">14</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>To say he was “fretful,” was using him ill,</div> +<div>He would prove the reverse to his very last quill;</div> +<div>Though he now bristled up at the simple idea,</div> +<div>This was often, with him, but a symptom of fear.</div> +<div>As he spoke, a poor toad, who had sate quite aloof</div> +<div>In a hovel of earth, with a stone for a roof,</div> +<div>Now slowly, on tiptoe, crept out of his hole,</div> +<div>And into the midst of the company stole;</div> +<div>The quadrupeds gazed as the reptile drew nigh,</div> +<div>Half afraid of his looks, though they could not tell why.</div> +<div>Mouse’s hair stood on end, and, still stranger to say,</div> +<div>Miss Chameleon <em>changed colour</em>, and fainted away.</div> +<div>Poor bufo confess’d, as he sate in the dark,</div> +<div>He had listen’d to porcupine’s brilliant remark,</div> +<div>And had thought it was due to himself and posterity,</div> +<div>T’ expose a new case of the poets’ temerity.</div> +<div>The poets, who kindly, but falsely, had said,</div> +<div>That he carried a beautiful gem in his head;</div> +<div>A jewel he thought would be quite out of place,</div> +<div>With his rustic brown coat, and his sallow green face,</div> +<div>And he knew not how people could think it was true,</div> +<div>Unless they had seen him when spangled with dew.</div> +<div><a name="png.015" id="png.015"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">15</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>His Surinam friend could they possibly mean,</div> +<div>Who carried her little ones set in her skin.</div> +<div>Those alone were the jewels his friend ever wore,</div> +<div>Like Cornelia’s, the good Roman matron of yore.</div> +<div>Having stated the case with regard to attire,</div> +<div>He said, with some warmth, that he did not spit fire:</div> +<div>And he ask’d why the wise ones omitted to hint</div> +<div>Where he carried his tinder, his steel, and his flint:</div> +<div>That his time was more usefully spent, he might say,</div> +<div>In chasing the vagrants and spectres away.</div> +<div>Every member of reptile society knew</div> +<div>That of insects and grubs he destroy’d not a few:</div> +<div>His wife had just miss’d a huge pioneer spider,</div> +<div>Who fled to his home, and then rudely defied her,</div> +<div>And e’en bang’d his door in her face to deride her.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div><ins class="TNsilent" title="Transcriber's note: + this stanza not indented in original">The</ins> marmot was “tchatting” away without end,</div> +<div>With a burrowing owl, his old neighbour and friend,</div> +<div>Who, being a bird in whom marmot confided,</div> +<div>Had hired his cottage, in which he resided.</div> +<div>The landlord just hinted, that when he lived there,</div> +<div>He had kept the old hovel in charming repair;</div> +<div><a name="png.016" id="png.016"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">16</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>The walls neatly mended, the parlour swept clean,</div> +<div>And never a cobweb nor grain to be seen;</div> +<div>But that now this once pleasant and rural retreat,</div> +<div>By his tenant, the owl, was no longer kept neat;</div> +<div>That the little round chamber, and long slanting hall,</div> +<div>For the want of attention, were likely to fall;</div> +<div>Such a mess and confusion he could but deplore,</div> +<div>And he thought, at the least, she might plaster the floor,</div> +<div>Just turn out of doors all the shells of her eggs,</div> +<div>And those heaps of dried beetles’ and butterflies’ legs.</div> +<div>The poor owl, who spoke well in the prairie-dog tongue,</div> +<div>Now found an excuse, in the care of her young;</div> +<div>Alleged the hard times; that is, beetles were few,</div> +<div>So to find them in food she had plenty to do.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div><ins class="TNsilent" title="Transcriber's note: + this stanza not indented in original">The</ins> raccoon stood apart in a beautiful glade,</div> +<div>Much disturb’d by the noise that the company made,</div> +<div>And there with a friend he stay’d fretting and pining,</div> +<div>To hear such a bellowing, howling, and whining.</div> +<div>“Oh! those red-monkeys’ shrieks,” his old friend would begin,</div> +<div>“Niagara surely don’t make such a din;</div> +<div><a name="png.017" id="png.017"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">17</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Let us get in this tree, ’tis the squirrel’s old barn,</div> +<div>And (as Captain Seal says) I’ll there spin a yarn.</div> +<div>I awoke very early to come to this feast,</div> +<div>Ere the sun warm’d the top of that hill in the east,</div> +<div>And forth from my lodging proceeded to creep,</div> +<div>For the wild turkey’s ‘gobble’ had broken my sleep.</div> +<div>Then I climb’d some tall maize plants, and ate up the ears,</div> +<div>And enjoy’d the repast, notwithstanding my fears;</div> +<div>For great is my awe of the red Indian’s gun,</div> +<div>And I thought I had caught a slight glimpse of one.</div> +<div>I saw, too, a rattlesnake creeping hard by,</div> +<div>And heard his tail clatter, and mark’d his red eye.</div> +<div>He coil’d himself up, for he spied me right soon,</div> +<div>And was wishing, no doubt, for a bit of raccoon;</div> +<div>Then, thinking the risk of a rifle in truth,</div> +<div>Was better by far than his poisonous tooth,</div> +<div>I hasten’d away from the much dreaded place,</div> +<div>That I might not be coil’d in his slimy embrace.</div> +<div>I rambled along to our nook in the beach,</div> +<div>And swallow’d the oysters that lay within reach.</div> +<div>Then traversed in haste the Savanna so wide,</div> +<div>Till I found the tall pine where you usually hide.</div> +<div><a name="png.018" id="png.018"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">18</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Then I scamper’d away o’er the Indigo fields,</div> +<div>Soon pass’d the old maple, (what sugar it yields!)</div> +<div>I travell’d along to the cabbage-palm quay,</div> +<div>Turn’d short by the far-spreading tall tulip tree.</div> +<div>Through forest and plain, and through dark dismal swamp,</div> +<div>And lighted alone by the firefly’s lamp,</div> +<div>Which, fluttering around me, now here and now there,</div> +<div>Rings of gold to my fancy seem’d form’d in the air,</div> +<div>Till now at the brink of the lake I arrive,</div> +<div>Reconnoitre the spot, and prepare for a dive,</div> +<div>Then plunged in the water, and over I swam,</div> +<div>Quickly climb’d the green bank, and so now here I am!</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">“But I will not detain you with tales of the north,</div> +<div>Of the riches and beauties that nature brings forth;</div> +<div>I should fail in describing what flowers abound,</div> +<div>Rhododendrons and kalmias empurpling the ground;</div> +<div>How the laurels’ gay berries, of deep coral red,</div> +<div>Hang far out from their cones on a bright silver thread;</div> +<div>How white lilies, azalias, enliven the green,</div> +<div>But will speak of the south, which will vary the scene.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent"><a name="png.019" id="png.019"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">19</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>“The Puma, the Llama, and tapir elate,</div> +<div>Tell their tales of the Mexican gardens and state;</div> +<div>That in midst of a lake those bright swimming isles float,</div> +<div>Which are paddled about like a raft or a boat;</div> +<div>Then they boast of the flowers, the pepper, and maize,</div> +<div>And give one accounts of the natives’ strange ways:</div> +<div>If a man be annoy’d by his neighbour, they say,</div> +<div>He will take his plantation and row it away.</div> +<div>The trees are luxuriant, the mora, whose size</div> +<div>Fills the wanderer’s mind with delight and surprise;</div> +<div>The ebony, green-heart, and letter-wood tree,</div> +<div>The locust and parasite fig you may see;</div> +<div>On the Concourite’s branch Ara parrots assemble,</div> +<div>Whose blue and red feathers the rainbow resemble.</div> +<div>There the trumpeter’s sounds and the goatsucker’s moans</div> +<div>Are mistaken sometimes for the dying man’s groans:</div> +<div>And faintly is heard near the Essequibo</div> +<div>The sad ‘whip-poor-will,’ and the ‘willy-come-go.’”</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">Here a seal shuffled up, and, just waving his fin,</div> +<div>Requested permission a word to put in.</div> +<div><a name="png.020" id="png.020"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">20</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>“Though the beauties of plain and of forest you know,</div> +<div>Yet who can describe all the wonders below?</div> +<div>On a soft bed of sponge in the deep sea I lie,</div> +<div>And watch the huge shark and the grampus glide by;</div> +<div>Or amidst groves of coral I play at bo-peep,</div> +<div>Or I float where the porpoise and flying-fish leap.</div> +<div>I have seen the thin nautilus trimming her sail,</div> +<div>And the Geyser-like waterspout made by the whale;</div> +<div>To this lord of the ocean there clung a whole bevy</div> +<div>Of parasite barnacles waiting his ‘levée.’</div> +<div>I have seen the small soldier-crab coated in red,</div> +<div>With the shell of a whelk for a home overhead;</div> +<div>And the limpet, who, cased in a house of his own,</div> +<div>Shuts out all the air, and sticks fast to a stone;</div> +<div>And the fights of the quarrelsome swordfish and shark,</div> +<div>Which have lasted from morning until it was dark.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">“Bright clusters of zoophite flowers I’ve seen,</div> +<div>Sea anemonies, purple, red, orange, and green,</div> +<div>That with petal-like fingers waylay the small fry</div> +<div>Who gaze on their hues, but gaze only to die;</div> +<div><a name="png.021" id="png.021"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">21</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Like the flower that buries a fly in its cup,</div> +<div>They draw in their feelers, and swallow them up.</div> +<div>One day, after lingering long in that place,</div> +<div>The cuttlefish spurted some ink in my face,</div> +<div>As it enter’d my eyes, for a time I was blind,</div> +<div>From a fish with three hearts this was very unkind.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">“In the course of my travels I often have seen</div> +<div>Th’ effects of the dreadful electric machine;</div> +<div>Of the gymnotus eel, with one stroke of his tail</div> +<div>He would make the stout African elephant quail,</div> +<div>Or the heart of the horny rhinoceros quake,</div> +<div>Oh! may he ne’er visit this land or this lake.</div> +<div>The small swimming spider, with silky lined cell,</div> +<div>I have seen her manœuvre her own diving-bell.</div> +<div>They are endless the wonders of shallow and deep,</div> +<div>But I spare you the list, you are falling asleep.”</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">The rest of the party amused themselves well,</div> +<div>Seeking insects and fruits in each dingle and dell:</div> +<div>Some stroll’d in the shade, others bask’d in the sun,</div> +<div>Whilst some with the cubs had a good game of fun.</div> +<div><a name="png.022" id="png.022"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">22</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>The much injured hedgehog was hunting for plants,</div> +<div>The ant-bears, both greater and lesser, caught ants;</div> +<div>With their long slimy tongues hanging out from the mouth,</div> +<div>Though they thought they preferr’d the great grubs of the south.</div> +<div>Some traced out the store of the wild honey-bee,</div> +<div>Hoarded up in the trunk of an old hollow tree,</div> +<div>Then but sparingly tasted, although it was good,</div> +<div>Being told by their dams it was dangerous food.</div> +<div>The sloths, two and three toed, were hardly awake;</div> +<div>The fox caught his tail, and the Caiman a snake,</div> +<div>Which was wriggling along to a lark’s low-built nest,</div> +<div>To tear the soft young from the mother’s warm breast.</div> +<div>The sheep and the cow, in apparent dejection,</div> +<div>Were quietly chewing the cud of reflection.</div> +<div>The cavies and ermines were running a race,</div> +<div>Armadillo was off to a grasshopper chace.</div> +<div>The cat was surprised to see animals roam,</div> +<div>And she purr’d when she thought of her kitten at home.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">Report said, a puppy got into a scrape,</div> +<div>By making remarks on the walrus’s shape,</div> +<div><a name="png.023" id="png.023"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">23</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>On her great staring eyes, and her ugly thick lips,</div> +<div>Her small head, her short neck, and the breadth of her hips;</div> +<div>But he said, “upon honour he meant no offence,”</div> +<div>And she, by forgiving him, shew’d her good sense.</div> +<div>The fox (cunning rogue!) too, complain’d of opossum,</div> +<div>For smuggling her young to the feast in her bosom;</div> +<div>For, as he was peeping and prying about,</div> +<div>“He had seen the young scapegraces get in and out.”</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">The land mouse, the water, and long-tail’d mouse, too,</div> +<div>Tiny field mouse, that turn’d up nose vixen the shrew,</div> +<div>The harvest mouse, fresh from a settler’s rick,</div> +<div>Were condemn’d by the great ones as not of their <i>clique</i>;</div> +<div>These reclined round a mole hill, and each dipp’d his paw</div> +<div>In a cocoa-nut bowl fill’d with rice, “en pillau.”</div> +<div>And the harvest mouse took most exceeding great pains</div> +<div>To squeak them a stanza in honour of grains.</div> +</div> +</div> + + + + +<div class="mouse"> +<h2><a name="png.024" id="png.024"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">24</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>MOUSE’S SONG.</h2> + + +<div class="poem pgbrk"> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">“<span class="smc">An</span> ear of corn, a grain of rice,</div> +<div class="indent2">Banquet rich for simple mice;</div> +<div class="indent">A leaf his bed, a hole his house,</div> +<div class="indent2">Who could hurt a harmless mouse?</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">“Grasshopper, so green and gay,</div> +<div class="indent2">See him as he bounds away!</div> +<div class="indent">Without bridle, spur, or stirrup,</div> +<div class="indent2">Oh! what music in that chirrup!</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">“Mosquito humming merrily,</div> +<div class="indent2">Glads us all most cheerily;</div> +<div class="indent">Admire his transparent wing,</div> +<div class="indent2">But as you look, avoid his sting.</div> +</div> + +<h4>CHORUS.</h4> + +<div class="stanza"> +<div>“Squeak! squeak! beware the owl’s beak,</div> +<div>Our hearts, like our voices, are so very weak.”</div> +</div> +</div> +</div> + + +<h2><a name="png.025" id="png.025"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">25</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>THE SUPPER.</h2> + + +<div class="poem pgbrk"> +<div class="stanza"> +<div>“<span class="smc"><ins class="TNsilent" title="Transcriber's note: + this stanza not indented in original">Hark</ins></span>! hark! to the sound now my comrades rejoice,</div> +<div>’Tis the bell-bird who calls us, I know well his voice;</div> +<div>Campanero, who graciously offer’d his song</div> +<div>When the feast was prepared, ’tis his ding-a-dong-dong;”</div> +<div>So exclaim’d a poor turnspit, their cook, who’d been toiling</div> +<div>All day very busily roasting or broiling.</div> +<div>At this moment that spoiler of pic-nics, a shower,</div> +<div>Obliged them to rush to the vine-cover’d bower,</div> +<div>Where in it—oh! joy to the hungry! they found</div> +<div>The repast long expected laid out on the ground.</div> +<div>They had raised to the office of “maître d’hotel”</div> +<div>The glutton, (and who could perform it so well?)</div> +<div>Who with excellent taste, and an eye to a share,</div> +<div>Had collected the following luxuries there:—</div> +<div><a name="png.026" id="png.026"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">26</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>The cat-fish, the sturgeon, and hickory shad,</div> +<div>Bass and gar in such plenty it made their hearts glad;</div> +<div>The sun and the moon-fish, the star-fish and dab,</div> +<div>The sting-ray and sheepshead, drum, grooper and crab;</div> +<div>Turkey-buzzards, swans, eagles, form’d excellent hashes,</div> +<div>When flavour’d with tallow-nuts, pompions, and squashes;</div> +<div>Baked frogs, “en surprise,” from a forest on fire,</div> +<div>Flamingoes, removed by a huge Lammergeyer;</div> +<div>Gulls, ravens, herons, boobies, bald-coots, water-hens,</div> +<div>And yards of strung ortolans, linnets, and wrens;</div> +<div>Loons, noddies, and nuthatches cook’d in a stew,</div> +<div>Whale blubber “en gras,” and guanas “au bleu;”</div> +<div>Jerk’d beef from the south, and large watersnake broth,</div> +<div>And a great dish of pemmican brought from the north;</div> +<div>Green branches of trees from the beaver’s damp hut,</div> +<div>Bowls of milk from the cow-tree and hickory-nut;</div> +<div>Then venison “en câche,” maize, wild rice, and, to boot,</div> +<div>Guavas, cranberries, mangoes, grapes, shaddock, breadfruit!</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div><ins class="TNsilent" title="Transcriber's note: + this stanza not indented in original">Here</ins> they sate and discuss’d the magnificent fare</div> +<div>Which the glutton had superintended with care.</div> +<div><a name="png.027" id="png.027"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">27</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>The monkeys in helping were very officious,</div> +<div>The bears suck’d their paws, and pronounced it delicious.</div> +<div>Of the noise-dreading Mr. Raccoon it was said,</div> +<div>That he sopp’d all his food, which was voted ill-bred;</div> +<div>And that, puff’d with conceit, he declared he look’d wise,</div> +<div>A distinction he owed to his spectacled eyes.</div> +<div>’Twas observed too (you know how the gossips will talk,)</div> +<div>Master guinea-pig stuff’d till he hardly could walk,</div> +<div>Though which dainty was best it was hard to determine:</div> +<div>The meat was too fresh for the epicure ermine;</div> +<div>To which glutton answered, “That all he could say</div> +<div>Was, that it, like himself, was ‘bien mortifiée.’”</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">All the others declared themselves very well pleased,</div> +<div>Though it must be confess’d they were terribly squeezed</div> +<div>By the poor little cubs, whom their dams would insert</div> +<div>Between the grown quadrupeds’ seats at dessert.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">The llamas departed while yet it was light,</div> +<div>As they always objected to travel by night,</div> +<div>And were trotting along, never thinking of harm,</div> +<div>When their friends heard the tree-frog foretelling a storm;</div> +<div><a name="png.028" id="png.028"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">28</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>There he sate on a bough, with his keen glassy eye</div> +<div>Most sagaciously blinking and watching the sky,</div> +<div>Then he look’d to the east, and thus hoarsely he spoke,</div> +<div>“There’s a terrible storm coming up, croak! croak! croak!”</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">The soft cooing ground-dove creeps close to her mate</div> +<div>At this sound of alarm, which all living things hate;</div> +<div>The snake-bird is startled, and drops from her bough</div> +<div>To dive in the stream that runs swiftly below.</div> +<div>Whilst perch’d on a tree the wood-pelican’s dreams</div> +<div>Are disturb’d by the crane’s and the crying-bird’s screams.</div> +<div>The tortoise made off at the mention of rain,</div> +<div>And troops of scared quadrupeds scour the plain!</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="indent">The rest quickly rise from their seats in affright,</div> +<div>To see if the warner has told them aright,</div> +<div>As they flatter themselves that it may be mere fancy,</div> +<div>Or put little faith in the toad’s necromancy;</div> +<div>They find he speaks truly, the storm is approaching,</div> +<div>Dark clouds o’er the beautiful blue are encroaching,</div> +<div>The tempest lays low the tall grass in the field,</div> +<div>To the furious blasts even forest-trees yield;</div> +<div><a name="png.029" id="png.029"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">29</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>All is silent at first, then the loud cracking thunder</div> +<div>Bursts at once o’er their heads, and o’erwhelms them with wonder!</div> +<div>His danger by instinct each quadruped knows,</div> +<div>Now confusion has taken the place of repose:</div> +<div>The bears shake their coats, and roll off with a growl,</div> +<div>Wolves, dogs, wolverenes, scamper off in full howl.</div> +<div>With their quills mounting guard, timid porcupines wait,</div> +<div>Whilst the Jaguar and Couguar crouch low and retreat.</div> +<div>The sloth gently draws himself up on a bough,</div> +<div>The raccoon slyly enters the hollow below.</div> +<div>Mice, hedgehogs, and tortoises creep to their holes,</div> +<div>And their fortified refuge is sought by the moles.</div> +<div>Seals and otters plunge silently into the lake,</div> +<div>Mrs. Beaver, too, dives with her young in her wake.</div> +<div>The tapir returns to his home in the fens,</div> +<div>The marmots are off to their underground dens,</div> +<div>And the wishtonwish marmot, the kind prairie dog,</div> +<div>Makes room in his hole for the tortoise and frog.</div> +<div>The hamster runs home, with the pouch in his cheek</div> +<div>Stuff’d with various provisions enough for a week;</div> +<div>Then stores in his dark lonely cell the rich pelf,</div> +<div>For, ill bred and greedy, he cares but for self.</div> +<div><a name="png.030" id="png.030"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">30</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>No children, no wife, no companion had he,</div> +<div>With his very best friend he could never agree,</div> +<div>But lived by himself without pleasure or mirth,</div> +<div>In a hermit-like vault, five feet deep in the earth;</div> +<div>But the sentinel marmot’s shrill whistle of fear</div> +<div>Echoes loud o’er the plain, and is heard far and near</div> +<div>By his joyous allies, for whose safety he cared,</div> +<div>And whose dangers, mirth, sorrows, and dwelling he shared.</div> +<div>And Mrs. Opossum, good dame, holds her breath,</div> +<div>Safely pockets her young, and as usual, feigns death;</div> +<div>Till the storm has blown over they lie in their sack,</div> +<div>Whilst the seal scrambles home with her cub pic-a-back.</div> +<div>Sir Hans Armadillo, coil’d up in a ball,</div> +<div>From the edge of a precipice lets himself fall;</div> +<div>Being arm’d “cap-à-pie,” he rolls safely away,</div> +<div>And lives, without doubt, in his hole to this day.</div> +<div>The rein-deer most kindly was offer’d to share</div> +<div>In her cold wintry drive by the white polar bear;</div> +<div>And she proffers a seat in her sledge, for she knows</div> +<div>’Tis a long weary way to her region of snows;</div> +<div>Besides, she is eager to join the dear child</div> +<div>She had left on an ice-floe alone to run wild.</div> +<div><a name="png.031" id="png.031"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">31</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Savage wolf, being greedy, fell into a trap,</div> +<div>Mr. Glutton was kill’d e’en whilst taking a nap;</div> +<div>And the badger, poor fellow! for shelter must roam,</div> +<div>For he finds the red fox has got into his home.</div> +<div>On an island of ice floats the walrus away,</div> +<div>With her cub in her fins, who upbraided her stay,</div> +<div>The joys of the feast deeply sank in her heart,</div> +<div>Like the rest of the guests she was loth to depart.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div><ins class="TNsilent" title="Transcriber's note: + this stanza not indented in original">And</ins> now, the repast being greatly diminish’d,</div> +<div>By ravens and vultures is speedily finish’d.</div> +<div>The tempest has ceased, the wilds beasts are at rest,</div> +<div>And each tiny quadruped lies in his nest.</div> +<div>Once more o’er the landscape the long shadows creep,</div> +<div>The repose and the darkness soon lull them to sleep,</div> +<div>For nothing is heard in the once noisy land,</div> +<div>Save the whip-poor-will telling that night is at hand.</div> +</div> +</div> + + + + +<h2><a name="png.032" id="png.032"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">32</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>MORAL.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<div><span class="smc">In</span> life, as in prairies, there’s danger abroad,</div> +<div>While love and kind hearts the best pleasures afford;</div> +<div>Though what we are seeking the pleasantest seems,</div> +<div>Disappointments and storms oft assail our best schemes.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<div>Howe’er we may plan them, wherever we roam,</div> +<div>Our comforts and joys we at last find at home;</div> +<div>There we live on in quiet with those we love best,</div> +<div>And the voice of affection there lulls us to rest!</div> +</div> +</div> + + + +<p class="printer2">C. 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