The Square Book of Animals
Arthur Waugh




Arthur Waugh

The Square Book of Animals





AN EXPLANATION


		Friend, seek not here (to feed the mind)
		Zoology's recondite feasts:
		Here you will find but common, kind,
		And unsophisticated beasts!

		Yet fresh the life of farm and grange
		As that which o'er the ocean roams:
		Take for a change a narrower range—
		An English book for English homes!




THE BRITISH BULL-DOG


		You swing the gate; and there he stands to greet you,
		With growl or grin, as you are strange or known:
		According to your merits will he treat you—
		An Englishman who loves and guards his own.




THE UN-COMMON CAT


		Nine lives they give the common cat?
		There's a rare one livelier yet than that!
		A cat that swings nine separate tails!
		And, when it's let out of the bag, it rails
		With so knotty a tongue that the culprit quails!




THE FRIENDLY HEN





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