Excerpt from The Red Book of Animal Stories To Miss Sybil Corbet Author of 'Animal Land' 'Sybil's Garden of Pleasant Beasts' and 'Epiotic Poems' Sybil, the Beasts we bring to you Are not so friendly, not so odd, As those that all amazed we view, The brutes created by your nod - The Wuss, the Azorkon, and the Pod; But then our tales are true! Fauna of fancy, one and all Obey your happy voice, we know; A garden zoological Is all around, where'er you go. Mellys and Kanks walk to and fro, And Dids attend your call. We have but common wolves and bears, Lion and leopard, hawk and hind, Tigers, and crocodiles, and hares: But yet they hope you will be kind, And mark with sympathetic mind These moving tales of theirs. 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.