ses of the Derby dilly,
And makes the baby Elephant look small and silly.
And it's oh! oh! pity my woes!
The American Ant-eater has put out my nose.

I stood against the novelties--I didn't care at all
When the Frenchmen my existence were unable to recall;
I knew it was all jealousy, and I, too great a fact,
To be rendered a nonentity by any Mossoo's act.
But it's oh! oh! the English me depose,
And with the Great Ant-eater have put out my nose.

He is but an Edentate, while I'm a Pachyderm;
He has got a shaggy hide, while mine is smooth and firm;
He can't tell how to walk, and he don't know how to swim.
And yet, the public overboard have thrown me for _him_.
And it's oh! oh! to think that my foes
Should get a Great Ant-eater to put out my nose.

He has scarcely got a mouth, and no teeth, but in their stead
A yard or two of tongue in his elongated head;
And why the fickle public should delight in such a beast,
Is a mystery that I cannot understand the least.
And it's oh! oh! would any one suppose,
An Ant-eater could ever out of joint put my nose?

I was growing up in Hippohood, the visitors to please,
And cutting my incisors, and increasing by degrees;
And my milk-and-carrot diet I was quickly throwing by--
And now they have compelled me to eat humble pie.
And it's oh! oh! what a thing I disclose!
The American Ant-eater out of joint's put my nose.

I'd like my sharpest grinders in that Ant-eater to stick,
And leave his bushy tail for the dicky birds to pick;
I'd just like to shew him that _I_'ve got teeth to use,
That can crunch him into nothing whenever I _chews_.
And it's oh! oh! that I could come to blows
With this beast that's so completely out of joint put my nose.

Or I wish that I could make myself a Fellow, d'ye see,
Of this Zoological So-ci-e-ty:
For then I'd send this Ant-eater back to his Ants,
Or to my French rival at the Jardin des Plantes.
But it's oh! no go: there's no end to my woes;
The American Ant-eater out of joint's put my nose!

Signed, HIPPO X his mark.
Countersigned, SADI

_Knight of the Bath and Groom of the Chambers._

Given at my house in the Zoological Gardens,
this 15th day of October, 1853.

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WORDS OF PEACE.

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