Excerpt from The Peacock "at Home," And, the Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast Sit tamely at home, hum-drum with our spouses, While Crickets and Butterflies open their houses? Shall such mean little insects pretend to the fashion? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.