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the next 6 stanzas the poet is making a list of animals and their complaints. Let us proceed further If some virulent disease Has attacked the chimpanzees, If the tortoise hasn’t stirred for several years, If the bear’s too full of buns, If the cobra eats her sons, If the panther has a wife who chews his ears; If giraffes have had a tiff And their necks are feeling stiff If hyenas will not laugh at keepers’ jokes, If the monkey’s pinched his tail, If the rhino’s looking pale, If the elephant eats paper-bags and chokes,