"Be kind to dumb creatures where'er you may be!"
Then I think, as I gaze on the laughing young elf,
From this text, what a sermon I'll preach to myself!
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Be blithesome with the bunny, at barnacles don't laugh!
Give nuts unto the monkey, and buns unto the bear,
Ne'er hint at currant jelly if you chance to see a hare!
O, little girls, pray hide your combs, when tortoises draw nigh,
And never in the hearing of a pigeon whisper Pie!
But give the stranded jelly-fish a shove into the sea—