A select body was in attendance from the Zoological Gardens, headed by a fine Bull; and at least thirty representatives of the Jardin des Plantes, with a Frog as spokesman, were discussing the Rights of Brutes and the theories of Proudhon. Several Ermine, of judicial aspect, and an Eagle or two, with drooping wings, came special from Moscow and Siberia. A party of Bears, with famished looks and a terrible flavor of garlic, were standing on their hind-legs and their dignity, as became deputies from Spain
The Animal Declaration of Independence Harper’s January 1857 [edited extract being part three in a series of 19]
