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The cat-fish, the sturgeon, and hickory shad,
Bass and gar in such plenty it made their hearts glad;
The sun and the moon-fish, the star-fish and dab,
The sting-ray and sheepshead, drum, grooper and crab;
Turkey-buzzards, swans, eagles, form’d excellent hashes,
When flavour’d with tallow-nuts, pompions, and squashes;
Baked frogs, “en surprise,” from a forest on fire,
Flamingoes, removed by a huge Lammergeyer;
Gulls, ravens, herons, boobies, bald-coots, water-hens,
And yards of strung ortolans, linnets, and wrens;