In their own blubber fried, serve as mere fish
To bait their appetites. Boiled elephants,
Rhinoceroses, and roasted crocodiles—
Every thing dished up whole—with lions stewed,
Shark sauce and eagle pie, and young giraffes,
Make up a pot-luck dinner,—if there’s plenty.
STUDENT. And as to beverage?
FESTUS. Oh! if thirsty, they
Will lay them down and drink a river dry,
Nor once draw breath.