Arthur Waugh
The Square Book of Animals

AN EXPLANATION

Friend, seek not here (to feed the mind)
Zoology's recondite feasts:
Here you will find but common, kind,
And unsophisticated beasts!

Yet fresh the life of farm and grange
As that which o'er the ocean roams:
Take for a change a narrower range—
An English book for English homes!

THE BRITISH BULL-DOG

You swing the gate; and there he stands to greet you,
With growl or grin, as you are strange or known:
According to your merits will he treat you—
An Englishman who loves and guards his own.

THE UN-COMMON CAT

Nine lives they give the common cat?
There's a rare one livelier yet than that!
A cat that swings nine separate tails!
And, when it's let out of the bag, it rails
With so knotty a tongue that the culprit quails!

THE FRIENDLY HEN

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