[p27]
The monkeys in helping were very officious,
The bears suck’d their paws, and pronounced it delicious.
Of the noise-dreading Mr. Raccoon it was said,
That he sopp’d all his food, which was voted ill-bred;
And that, puff’d with conceit, he declared he look’d wise,
A distinction he owed to his spectacled eyes.
’Twas observed too (you know how the gossips will talk,)
Master guinea-pig stuff’d till he hardly could walk,
Though which dainty was best it was hard to determine:
The meat was too fresh for the epicure ermine;