Tails

A LION has a tail and a very fine tail,

And so has an elephant, and so has a whale,

And so has a crocodile, and so has a quail–

They’ve all got tails but me.

If I had sixpence I would buy one;

I’d say to the shopman, ‘Let me try one’;

I’d say to the elephant, ‘This is my one.’

They’d all come round to see.

Then I’d say to the lion, ‘Why, you’ve got a tail!

And so has the elephant, and so has the whale!

And, look! There’s a crocodile! He’s got a tail!

You’ve all got tails like me!’

Alan Alexander Milne

A.A. Milne, (born January 18, 1882, London, England—died January 31, 1956, Hartfield, Sussex), English humorist, the originator of the immensely popular stories of Christopher Robin and his toy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. After attending the University of Cambridge's Trinity College and writing for the literary magazines Granta and Punch, A.A. Milne began a successful career as a novelist, poet and playwright in the 1920s. His best-known works are his two collections of children's poetry, When We Were Young and Now We Are Six, and his two books of stories about the lovable bear Winnie-the-Pooh and his animal friends.

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