What on arth a kangaroo wants so mutch tail for haz bothered the philosophers for ages, and i understand, that lately, at one ov their scientifick meetings they hav giv it up.
The philosophers git beat oftener than ennybody i kno ov, but they seldom giv a thing up; but the kangaroo’s tail waz too mutch for them.
But a kangaroo’s tail don’t bother me enny more than a kite’s tail duz; a bob-tailed kangaroo on the jump would akt just as a bob-tailed kite duz in the air. Whenever i cum acrost ennything in natur that i kant explain, then i kno at once that it iz all right for natur never made enny blunders in the animals; if she has failed ennywhare, it iz in man.
Natur gav man reazon, and showed him how to use it, but man luvs to open the throttle valve and let reazon hum. This ackounts for hiz running oph from the track so often and gitting bust up. I never knu a kangaroo tew bust up.
THE CODFISH.
The codfish iz a child ov the oshun. This ackounts for their being so salt.
They are caught with a hook and line, and bite a steel trap, and hang on like a poor relation.
They are good eating for a wet day; they are better than an umbreller to keep a man dry.
Dried codfish iz one ov the luxurys of life, but codfish three times a day would weaken mi confidence in them.
Codfish never venture in fresh water; they would soon spile if they did.