Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/Logic

by Charles Follen Adams

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.