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Title: The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic
Author: F. B. C.
Release Date: June 2, 2008 [EBook #25681]
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1 THE
QUADRUPEDS’ PIC-NIC
LONDON
WILLIAM PICKERING
1840
2 C. Whittingham, Tooks Court,
Chancery Lane.
3 ADVERTISEMENT
The 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.
F. B. C.
5 THE QUADRUPEDS’ PIC-NIC.
NO doubt you have heard how the grasshoppers’ feasts
Excited the spleen of the birds and the beasts;
How the peacock and turkey flew into a passion,
On finding that insects pretended to fashion.
Now, I often have thought it exceedingly hard,
That nought should be said of the beasts by the bard;
Who, by some strange neglect, has omitted to state
That the quadrupeds gave a magnificent fête;
So, out of sheer justice I take up my pen,
To tell you the how, and the where, and the when.
The place which they chose was a wild chestnut ground,
(And many such spots in the new world are found,)
6 Where the evergreen oak and the cucumber trees
Rear aloft their tall branches, and wave in the breeze;
Where the hickory, cypress, and cabbage-tree grow,
And shade the sweet flowers that blossom below;
And the creepers and vines form a beautiful sight,
As they climb the tall shaft, and hang down from a height;
Or they mix with the long pendant moss which is found
Growing high on the branches, yet touching the ground:
From amidst the dark foliage the mocking-birds sing,
Or mimic the hum of the honey-bees’ wing,
As they whirl round a flower enjoying the feast,
So unsparingly spread for bird, insect, or beast.
From afar the bald eagle
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