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['If you want good milk, butter, cheese, beef, mutton, and / bacon, keep the animals which supply these things amused -- give / them toys, in fact. ' -- The _Daily Mirror_.]
When a friend after breakfast some compliment pays / To the nourishment recently taken, / When he mentions the eggs with expressions of praise, / And says flattering things of the bacon, / I conduct him at once to my farm on the Downs / Which is managed so blithely and brightly / That the brows of my cows are unwrinkled by frowns / And my chickens are jocund and sprightly, / Where dogs in their kennels avoid being snappy, / And ev'ry dumb creature is healthy and happy.