Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/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.