Forty-four years before
Doctor Dolittle talked to the animals, we learned that animals say such things as:
- He did it first.
- I wish.
- I don't care.
- Not my fault.
- What is that to you?
- I am as good as you.
- More, more.
- Why not?
Additionally:
(
The Man's Boot and Other Tales; or Fabulous Truths in Words of One Syllable by Gertrude Sellon, 1876.)