The Furries had a walnut tree. They beat it every day. (You ought to beat a walnut tree—that’s what the wise men say.) They boasted to their puppy friends of nuts that it would bear And added, “But you won’t get one. The nuts are ours, so there!" Such greedy boasts annoyed the dogs. And late one stormy night The puppies came and took the nuts—which served the Furries right!
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Southland Times, Issue 23782, 1 April 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)
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70The Furries had a walnut tree. They beat it every day. (You ought to beat a walnut tree—that’s what the wise men say.) They boasted to their puppy friends of nuts that it would bear And added, “But you won’t get one. The nuts are ours, so there!" Such greedy boasts annoyed the dogs. And late one stormy night The puppies came and took the nuts—which served the Furries right! Southland Times, Issue 23782, 1 April 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)
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