The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic

By Good Press

The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic by an anonymous author is about a very fancy picnic that a lot of lucky animals are invited to attend. Excerpt: "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 naught 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."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 20, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066146610

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The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4064066146610

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[p 3 ] ADVERTISEMENT

[p 5 ] THE QUADRUPEDS’ PIC-NIC.

[p 24 ] MOUSE’S SONG.

[p 25 ] THE SUPPER.

[p 32 ] MORAL.

3 ADVERTISEMENT

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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.

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5 THE QUADRUPEDS’ PIC-NIC.

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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