Let canine animals delight in mutual barkings, and in reciprocating injuries with their fangs; for it is their natural disposition in this manner to gratify their ferocity.
Let creatures of the ursine and feline tribes employ themselves in growling and contention: since they are so constituted as to take pleasure in these occupations. But you, who, among the great European family may be called children—should never allow your irascible propensities to be thus aroused. Those diminutive organs of prehension which you possess were never constructed for the laceration of one another’s instruments of vision.
Punch, December 11, 1847.
To a Roebuck[44] at Bay.
Whigs in their cozy berths agree
And ’tis a sorry sight
When independent men we see
Fall out and fume and fight.
Let Broom[45] delight to bark and bite