Johnny's Essay On Tails

Tliere was a dog and there was a cat, and there was a labm, and there was a ox. ïlie dog it sed to the ox, the dog did: "That's a mity long tail yon got tliere, mister, with a nice tossle to the end, but you cafi't waggle it wen you meet yure master." Then the cat it sed to the ox, too: "No, in deed, and you can't blo' it up like a bloon wen you git mad." Then the labm it sed ■ "You ain't able for to twinkle it, either, wen you thinkof something funny." ïbje ox he thot a wile, and bime by lie spoke up, and sed his ownself : "I played hooky wen I was a little boy so much that I dident leni them vain accomplishments, tliat's a fack, but I got a tolaby good bisness edcation, and I gess mebby you tellers wude have to ciim to me for to hullup you out if you had to iil a order for ox-tail soop."