Animal crackers

(1993 December late)
Believe it or not, I have just eaten a whale fish, and before that a graham hippopotomus.  How could I resist with the box open on the coffee table before me?  --  Sherry, [at Christmas] when we sat around half starved waiting for the call to supper, Skip would say, "Sherry's present!" and each of us would devour an entire wild animal with no trouble at all.