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You make enough noise now," declared Toto. "But none of you have
answered my question: Where is my growl?"
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You may search ME," said the Woozy. "I don't care for such things, myself."
You snore terribly," asserted Toto.
It may be," said the Woozy. "What one does when asleep one is not
accountable for. I wish you would wake me up sometime when I'm snoring
and let me hear the sound. Then I can judge whether it is terrible or
delightful."
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It isn't pleasant, I assure you," said the Lion, yawning.
To me it seems wholly unnecessary," declared Hank the Mule.
You ought to break yourself of the habit," said the Sawhorse. "You never
hear me snore, because I never sleep. I don't even whinny as those puffy meat
horses do. I wish that whoever stole Toto's growl had taken the Mule's bray
and the Lion's roar and the Woozy's snore at the same time."
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Do you think, then, that my growl was stolen?"
You have never lost it before, have you?" inquired inquired the Sawhorse.
Only once, when I had a sore throat from barking too long at the moon."
Is your throat sore now?" asked the Woozy.
No," replied the dog.
I can't understand," said Hank, "why dogs bark at the moon. They can't
scare the moon, and the moon doesn't pay any attention to the bark. So why
do dogs do it?"
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Were you ever a dog?" asked Toto.
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No indeed," replied Hank. "I am thankful to say I was created a mule--the
most beautiful of all beasts--and have always remained one."
The Woozy sat upon his square haunches to examine Hank with care.
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Beauty," he said, "must be a matter of taste. I don't say your judgment is
bad, friend Hank, or that you are so vulgar as to be conceited. But if you
admire big, waggy ears and a tail like a paintbrush and hoofs big enough for
an elephant and a long neck and a body so skinny that one can count the ribs
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