Charles Follen Adams

“ And things filled with spice, Which may have been mice,— They looked enough like them, — dear me! To see Such food in the "land of the free." One day I'd a friend Who was coming to spend The day, and take dinner with me: So I went to Ah-Bet, And told him to get A rabbit "and fixin's;" and he Said "Oui," In a manner quite Frenchy to see. The clock had struck one: The dinner was done, And served up with steaming Bohea. "'Tis excellent fare, This rabbit, or hare,: Whichever it may be," said he,
(Mon ami:) "You've a prize in that Heathen Chinee." ”