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Beasts at law, or zoologian jurisprudence

a poem, satirical, allegorical, and moral

Woodworth, Samuel (1784-1842)

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BEASTS AT LAW. A POEM, IN THREE CANTOS.

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Cryer.
“Whoo-hoo! whoo-hoo! whoo-hoo!

This it seems was the Zoologian mode of opening court and it appears to sound as well, and contain full as much meaning, as our modern “O yes! O yes! O yes!”

I call
Birds, Beasts, and Reptiles, one and all,
Who've any suit to try or plead,
To name it ere the court proceed;
To state each wrong, and cause of sorrow,
Or they may not be heard to-morrow.”