A DOG WITH TWO TAILS
Ask your father if he ever heard of a man called Barnum. Grandfather might chip in with "Barnum? Barnum’s Circus? Of course! He was known all over the world. He had the greatest menagerie that’s ever been got together!" It's true. Those were the real circus days-before films. Theatres -fairs-and circuses. These provided the fun of high days and holidays for everybody. Barnum used to tell how he first became interested in freak animals. He was fourteen years old, and a man in his village made a very long journey, for those days — he travelled thirty miles! The boy Barnutn asked him, "Did you see anything strange or wonderful in your travels?" "I did," answered the man, "I saw a dog with two tails." "Till have that dog," said the lad, "Where can I get him? Do you think they'll sell him for a pound?" "Oh yes." So the next morning Barnum mounted a horse and prepared to ride off to the town where was to be found this marvel of dogs. Then the man strolled up to him. "Oh, by the way," he said, " Perhaps I ought to mention it. The dog I saw, you know, was coming out of a tanning yard, carrying a cow’s tail in his mouth."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 December 1939, Page 24
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216A DOG WITH TWO TAILS New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 December 1939, Page 24
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