The Honourable M. T. Nutt <br />About the bush did jog. <br />Till, passing by a settler's hut, <br />He stopped and bought a dog. <br />Then started homewards full of hope, <br />Alas, that hopes should fail! <br />The dog pulled back and took the rope <br />Beneath the horse's tail. <br /> <br />The Horse remarked, "I would be soft <br />Such liberties to stand!" <br />"Oh dog," he said, "Go up aloft, <br />Young man, go on the land!"<br /><br />Andrew Barton Paterson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ballad-of-m-t-nutt-and-his-dog/
