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..."What did you say, Sir ? " that he at last grew enraged, and said, " I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners...is a. cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, " Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture...

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...afterwards forced from their victim the energetic protest : " Sir, I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, sir, that these are not the manners...is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?" ' In all which, noteluding chapter of his Enquiry into Polite Learning, he repeats it, with the saving...

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...his neighbours. " I will not be baited with what and why," said poor Johnson, one day in desperation. "Why is a cow's tail long'? Why is a fox's tail bushy?" "Sir," said Johnson on another occasion, when Boswell was cross-examining a third person about him...