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The Old Dog

    Once upon a time there was an old dog.  He was a particularly irascible old dog, full of tiny Teutonic rages over the slights visited upon his imperial person.  One rainy day, the immensely tall creature put him outside to perform his ablutions.  The old dog gazed into the stainless steel sky, looked at the drab mud ground, and thought 'This simply will not do.  The immensely tall creatures should know better than to subject my personage to the cold and wet.  I shall have to levy a fine."  So the old dog gave his peremptory bark to summon the immensely tall creature, walked into the house, and levied a fine on the floor.