Comic Annual,  8 (1837), 22–34.

The Blue Boar

[Thomas Hood]

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Cruelty, Menageries, Politics


    The narrator reports having seen many rabid men stirred by raving demagogues, but none fixed on a specific object, such as liberating 'the beasts from Cross's'; instead they were all loyal 'to one design—a battle royal' (25).



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