Anonymous 
The Quadrupeds’ Pic-Nic 

The Quadrupeds’ Pic-Nic by an anonymous author is about a very fancy picnic that a lot of lucky animals are invited to attend. Excerpt: ‘NO doubt you have heard how the grasshoppers’ feasts ‘Excited the spleen of the birds and the beasts;’ How the peacock and turkey ‘flew into a passion, ‘ On finding that insects ‘pretended to fashion.’ Now, I often have thought it exceedingly hard, That naught should be said of the beasts by the bard; Who, by some strange neglect, has omitted to state That the quadrupeds gave a magnificent fête; So, out of sheer justice I take up my pen, To tell you the how, and the where, and the when.’