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cute, funny. Is this from Dr. Seuss or an original? If from Seuss, you 
should include credit and copyright info, otherwise this will spread 
uncredited all over the Internet....

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-donald henry hinkle
  "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms." (Muriel Rukeyser)

On Nov 17, 2004, at 11:46 AM, Scott M. Tolbert wrote:

>
> One day, making tracks
> In the prairie of Prax,
> Came a North-Going Zax
> And a South-Going Zax.
>
> And it happened that both of them came to a place
> Where they bumped.  There they stood.
> Foot to foot.  Face to face.
>
> "Look here, now!" the North-Going Zax said, "I say!
> You are blocking my path.  You are right in my way.
> I'm a North-Going Zax and I always go north.
> Get out of my way, now, and let me go forth!"
>
> "Who's in whose way?" snapped the South-Going Zax.
> "I always go south, making south-going tracks.
> So you're in MY way!  And I ask you to move
> And let me go south in my south-going groove."
>
> Then the North-Going Zax puffed his chest up with pride.
> "I never," he said, "take a step to one side.
> And I'll prove to you that I won't change my ways
> If I have to keep standing here fifty-nine days!"
>
> "And I'll prove to YOU," yelled the South-Going Zax,
> "That I can stand here in the prairie of Prax
> For fifty-nine years!  For I live by a rule
> That I learned as a boy back in South-Going School.
> Never budge!  That's my rule.  Never budge in the least!
> Not an inch to the west!  Not an inch to the east!
> I'll stay here, not budging!  I can and I will
> If it makes you and me and the whole world stand still!"
>
> Well...
> Of course the world didn't stand still.  The world grew.
> In a couple of years, the new highway came through
> And they built it right over those two stubborn Zax
> And left them there, standing un-budge in their tracks.
>
> -- 
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>     Scott M. Tolbert
>
>     Withfeathers Trading Company
>
>     withfeathers at pobox.com
>
>     "Hope is that thing with feathers"