Resolved, That as we may not succeed in exterminating the human race for some time to come, a prize of $500 be offered to the human creatures for the best poem descriptive of our declaration of independence, the same to … Continue reading
The meeting being organized, the Magpie read the following Resolutions: Resolved, That it is our right, as it is our duty, to shake off the galling yoke of the human race, and to assert our paramount claims to the exclusive … Continue reading
The Penguin returned thanks. He would try to deserve their confidence. It was not in his nature to contradict any one. He had once tried fighting, but it was so foreign to his tastes that he fainted in the attempt. … Continue reading
A second ballot was taken as follows: The Lion 261; The Dog 42; The Monkey 294; The Cock 1; Scattering 147. After this ballot a conference took place between the leading friends of the Lion, the Dog, and the Monkey. … Continue reading
What claim had the Dog to the supremacy of the brutes? Had he not notoriously taken the side of their oppressors from time immemorial? He would go so far in his respect for man as to admit that he had … Continue reading
A Cock rose to crow that the business before the meeting was the selection of a President. He was deeply impressed with the solemnity of the occasion, and, albeit not given to crowing over others, he thought he might venture … Continue reading
