Dell and Vernon were out walking
And came upon a real deep well.
They wondered just how deep it was
But it was kind of hard to tell.
So Vernon threw a pebble in
To hear the splash and see how deep.
They listened for the splash to sound
But neither of them heard a peep.
Dell found himself another rock,
It was almost too big to throw.
They didn’t hear it make a splash
And now they both just had to know.
They looked around and found a log
And dragged it to the open well.
It took them both to tip it in
And then they listened as it fell.
Then something almost knocked them down,
A little yellow mongrel dog.
It never paused but jumped right in
Where they had just now thrown the log.
“Now doesn’t that just beat it all?”
Said Vernon to his brother Dell.
“Why do you s’pose that little dog
Just run and jumped into that well?”
An old man came a walking by,
Said he was looking for his dog.
“I know he’s somewhere here close by,
I tied him to a great big log!”
