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    The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball
    The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball
    The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball
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    The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball

    By Catherine Ann Turner Dorset

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset

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      Title: The Peacock 'At Home:'

      A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball

      Author: Catherine Ann Dorset

      Release Date: November 1, 2007 [EBook #23281]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PEACOCK 'AT HOME:' ***

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      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

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      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      THE

      PEACOCK AT HOME:

      A SEQUEL

      TO THE

      BUTTERFLY’S BALL.

      WRITTEN

      BY A LADY.

      THE TWENTY-SEVENTH EDITION, WITH NOTES.

      LONDON:

      PRINTED FOR J. HARRIS,

      CORNER OF ST. PAUL’S CHURCH YARD.

      1815.

      J. Swan, Printer, 76, Fleet Street, London.

      3 THE

      PEACOCK AT HOME.

      The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feasts

      Excited the spleen of the Birds and the Beasts:

      For their mirth and good cheer—of the Bee was the theme,

      And the Gnat blew his horn, as he danc’d in the beam.

      ’Twas humm’d by the Beetle, ’twas buzz’d by the Fly,

      And sung by the myriads that sport through the sky.

      The Quadrupeds listen’d with sullen displeasure,

      But the tenants of air were enraged beyond measure.

      The Peacock display’d his bright plumes to the Sun,

      And, addressing his Mates, thus indignant begun:

      4 "Shall we, like domestic, inelegant Fowls,

      As unpolished as Geese, and as stupid as Owls,

      Sit tamely at home, hum drum with our Spouses,

      While Crickets and Butterflies open their houses?

      Shall such mean little insects pretend to the fashion?

      Cousin Turkey-cock, well may you be in a passion!

      If I

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