The Dogs’ Grand Dinner Party

From Dame Dingle's Series of children's books published by McLoughlin Brothers of New York, this delightful rhyming story from 1869 tells of a gathering of elegantly dressed canines, among them a pug, a pincher, a terrier, and a bull-dog, who dine on ratpie ("each one declared that the dinner was choice"), dance gaily, and are attended to by smartly attired monkey servants.