The Fastidious Yak

August 13th, 2007 - No Responses

Herford no. 18

There was once a fastidious yak
Who refused to eat hay from a stack.
“A haystack,” said he,
“Looks so very like me!”
(The haystack’s the one at the back.)

[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXV, November 1912, no. 1, p. 160.]