nt brains
To go into the water when it rains.

The Elephant

[Illustration]

When people call this beast to mind,
They marvel more and more
At such a +_LITTLE_+ tail behind,
So _LARGE_ a trunk before.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

The Big Baboon

[Illustration]

The Big Baboon is found upon
The plains of Cariboo:
He goes about
with nothing on
(A shocking thing to do).

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

But if he
dressed respectably
And let his whiskers grow,
How like this Big Baboon would be
To Mister So-and-so!

[Illustration]

The Rhinoceros

[Illustration]

Rhinoceros, your hide looks all undone,
You do not take my fancy in the least:
You have a horn where other brutes have none:
Rhinoceros, you are an ugly beast.

[Illustration]

The Frog

[Illustration]

Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As 'Slimy skin,' or 'Polly-wog,'
Or likewise 'Ugly James,'
Or 'Gap-a-grin,' or 'Toad-gone-wrong,'
Or 'Bill Bandy-knees':
The Frog is justly sensitive
To epithets like these.

[Illustration]

No animal will more repay
A treatment kind and fair;
At least
so lonely people say
Who keep a frog (and, by the way,
They are extremely rare).

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

Oh! My!

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Transcriber's Note: The original edition was well-illustrated. The
illustrations were scattered amongst the poetry. For ease of
readability, the poems have been put back together with every effort of
retaining the original style.

For the poem titled "The Elephant," a word in small-capitals is denoted
by +. As usual, italics are indicated by _.

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