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THE END OF IT by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: A WHOLE-TAIL DOG, AND A HALF-TAIL DOG
Last Line: "BUT YOU WEAR THEM NOW INSIDE."
Subject(s): TAILS;
A whole-tail dog, and a half-tail dog,
And a dog without a tail,
Went all three out on an autumn day
To follow a red-fox trail.

But the dogs that carried their tails along
Fell out, it is said, by the way;
And the loss of a tail and a half at the end
Of the dogs put an end to the fray.

When each, as a morsel sweet, gulped down
What had late been a neighbor's pride,
"You've kept your tails," laughed the no-tail dog,
"But you wear them now @3inside@1."



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