Well, the whuppin‘ Bear gave Buh Fox was a sight to see. Fox yelpin‘ and hollerin', Buh Bear cuffin’ him first on one side then the other, and red fur flyin‘ every-which-way.

When Fox got out of there he was a sad sight. Had to go home and grow a new coat of fur, and ain‘t nobody see him for four weeks and seven days.

Like I said before, the moral is — don‘t do you no good to learn the right trick at the wrong time. Trouble with Buh Fox, if he ‘d done that trick on Wednesday ‘stead of Thursday he‘d made good on it. Time is one element you can‘t fool around with.

From Terrapin’s Pot of Sense by Harold Courlander New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1957, pp. 37-40