When the Squirrel met a Magpie
In the top of a tree very high
They started to fight
To claw and to bite
And you should have seen the “fur fly.”

Said a squirrel who raced with a fan:
“You are built on a wonderful plan;
But you’d better take care
Or you’ll lose all you hair.
I advise you to stop, if you can.”

[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXV, April 1913, no. 6, p. 962.]