John Kendrick Bangs,
The Testimony
(1906)
“ It has been demonstrated that docking a horse's tail is a painless operation. Daily paper. Then up stepped Reggie Toodlekins, the celebrated whip, Who 's tooled the good coach Tally-ho on many a summer trip; He bowed before the jury and he smiled upon the judge, And when they asked, "Does docking hurt?" he answered them, "Oh, fudge! ”
