< Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems 
 

 
        
      
LOGIC
LOGIC
- 'Tis strange, but true, that a common cat
 - Has got ten tails, — just think of that!
 
- Don't see it, eh? The fact is plain:
 - To prove it so I rise t'explain.
 
- We say a cat has but one tail:
 - Behold how logic lifts the veil!
 
- No cat has nine tails: don't you see
 - One cat has one tail more than she ?
 
- Now add the one tail to the nine,
 - You'll find a full ten-tailed feline.
 
- As Holmes has said, in his "One-Horse Shay,"
 - Logic is logic; that's all I say.
 

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