Joseph W. Yoder

“(Watching a circus parade) ...Behind the band wagon came a big wagon with beautiful girls that didn't have time to put their dresses on. Then came big dark complexioned animals I had never seen. John Bigelow said, "Them's the elephants." I looked at them and said, "Why are they walking backwards?" John said, "They're not walking backwards." I said, "They are too; don't you see their tails on the front end?" "Them ain't tails," John said, "them's their trunks." And John was right, got they had tails on the other end, too.”
― Joseph W. Yoder, Rosanna's Boys