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Three Elephant Power and Other Stories by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
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Over the flowing bowl the fat man said: "You see, I don't believe
in this nonsense about points. I can judge 'em without that."

Twenty dissatisfied competitors vowed they would never bring
another horse there in their lives. Gaslight's owner said: "Blimey,
I knew it would be all right with old Billy judging. 'E knows this 'orse."




The Dog



The dog is a member of society who likes to have his day's work,
and who does it more conscientiously than most human beings.
A dog always looks as if he ought to have a pipe in his mouth
and a black bag for his lunch, and then he would go quite happily to office
every day.

A dog without work is like a man without work, a nuisance to himself
and everybody else. People who live about town, and keep a dog
to give the children hydatids and to keep the neighbours awake at night,
imagine that the animal is fulfilling his destiny. All town dogs,
fancy dogs, show dogs, lap-dogs, and other dogs with no work to do,
should be abolished; it is only in the country that a dog has
any justification for his existence.

The old theory that animals have only instinct, not reason, to guide them,
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