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(Where hosts of dogs and cats are daily killed,) 

 — But stop ! I'm saying more than I intended ; 

 I think the less there's said, the sooner mended ; 

 But still, I'll say — it can't be thought unfair — 

 We've still got dogs enough, and some to spare ; 

 And if the surplus can be thus used up, 

 Spare not, brave butcher ! e'en the smallest pup ! 

 Nay, more ; I'll now agree, if any one 

 Will bring to me of sausages a ton, 

 And prove them made of dogs in Fitchburg found, 

 I'll buy the lot at twenty cents a pound. 

 But take the genuine sausage, really filled 

 With genuine pork, by finger neat and skilled, 

 The meat chopped fine, alternate fat and lean, 

 Seasoned, and placed in skins you know are clean, 

 Or take a strip of cloth twelve inches wide, 

 Fold it and sew it up one end and side — 

 It makes a bag — shaped like (but don't, 1 beg, 

 At my suggestion use) a stocking leg ; 

 This fill up with the richly seasoned meat, 

 And cut off slices as you wish to eat. 

 There's nothing like it ! search the whole domain 

 Of earth, air, water, and you search in vain — 

 At least I think so ; still I am well aware 

 There's variance of opinion everywhere. 

 John Bull likes beef rare done ; the French eat frogs ; 

 The Dutch saur kraut ; the Chinese cats and dogs ; 

 The latter openly, and make their boast 

 There's nothing half so sweet for stew or roast ; 

 And if they must be eaten, 'tis, methinks. 

 Better to eat them so than chopped — in links ! 

 "While some irreverent rascals, we're told, 

 Kill and eat up their parents when they're old — 

 This last we don't believe ; it's nonsense, stuff- 

 It is (we mean the story) quite too tough ; 

 Well, let them eat ; let each in peace and quiet 

 Enjoy as best he may his chosen diet ; — 

 If you like frogs, why eat 'em, and let me 

 Enjoy my sausage — we won't disagree. 

 Yes, sausage ! thou the palm shalt bear away, 

 For thee I tune my lyre and sing my lay, — 

 But here I pause, in pity to the pen, 

 Kever rebellious till the moment when 



