“It's funny how dogs and cats know the insides of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?”
Pollyanna
Works, Pollyanna (1913)
“How funny are dogs?”
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John Marsden
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Tomorrow, When the War Began
Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began
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A very similar riddle about cow legs was also circulated by Edward Josiah Stearns' Notes on Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853), p. 46: '"Father," said one of the rising generation to his paternal progenitor, "if I should call this cow's tail a leg, how many legs would she have?" "Why five, to be sure." "Why, no, father; would calling it a leg make it one?"'
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