[p41] The soft, silky, self-colour’d Puma felt pain,
Pale as ashes with anger he could not restrain;
The Llama indignantly felt the disgrace,
And spirted saliva in every one’s face;
In fury the Mastiff bark’d loud for relief;
The poor patient Camel was laden with grief;
The Antelope wisely eloped from the fray,
But the Springbok was booked for the rest of the day.
The wrath of the Leopard then rose on the gale,
And broke out in dark spots from his head to his tail;