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The Honourable M. T. Nutt / About the bush did jog, / Till, passing by a settler's hut, / He stopped and bought a dog.
Then started homewards full of hope, / Alas, that hopes should fail! / The dog pulled back and took the rope / Beneath the horse's tail.
The Horse remarked, "I would be soft / Such liberties to stand! " / "Oh dog," he said, "Go up aloft, / Young man, go on the land!"
The Evening News, 17 December 1904