"The "Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic" is a very humble imitation of Mrs. Dorset's "Peacock at Home. " Even in my imitation I find I am not original. The Quadrupeds, it appears, have already had an "Elephants' Ball, " and a "Lions' Masquerade. "" "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 nought should be said of the beasts by the bard; Who, by some strange neglect, has omitted to state That the quadrupeds gave a magnificent fete; So, out of sheer justice I take up my pen, To tell you the how, and the where, and the when. ""