“The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.”
“that's a hell of a way to treat a donkey.”
“According to the Iroquois, when the Creator made the animals of the earth, He shot each one in the left hind leg so that humans would be able to catch them, but He missed the wolf.”
“To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.”
“Papa, ain’t it a caution that we can only eat two legs off a frog, ’stead of four.” And he said: “Rob, here’s what you do. You catch a real big bullfrog and make friends with him. And teach him to jump backwards. That’ll make his front legs big as the hind.”
“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run".”