A circus man was scouring the countryside in search of an elephant that
had escaped from the menagerie and wandered off. He inquired of an
Irishman working in a field to learn if the fellow had seen any strange
animal thereabouts.
"Begorra, Oi hev thot!" was the vigorous answer. "There was an
inju-rubber bull around here, pullin' carrots with its tail."