If yu argy, alwus git beet.
XXXIV.
JOSH CORRESPONDS.
Jenkins—Yure letter is full ov very foolish questions, but sum ov them are worth answering.
I kant tell whether dogs are born with a bob-tail on them, or whether they ain't, but i am inclined tew think they am.
I think they am, bekause I never see enny dogs' tails laying around loose, without enny dog to them.
But thare is one thing that bothers me too, and that is, i kant see why it aint just as easy for a dog tew be born with a whole tail on him as with a bob piece, when he is about it; still, if the dog has got tew be skant sumwhare, perhaps it is good judgment tew take it oph on the longest end.
The more we sarch these things, Jenkins, the more curerisser they am.
Natur don't dew ennything without sum good reason of her own. If she raises a bob-tailed dog, she don't dew it for fun, but for the dog's welfair; perhaps the dog, if he had bin borned with a whole tail, might hav had it bit oph by a sheep or sumthing.