A doctor, a lawyer, and an architect were arguing about who had the smartest dog. They decided¹ to settle the issue by getting all the dogs together and seeing whose could perform the most impressive feat².

"Okay, Rover," ordered the architect, and Rover trotted³ over to a table and in four minutes constructed a complete scale model of a Cathedral out of toothpicks. The architect slipped Rover a cookie, and everyone agreed that it was a pretty impressive performance.

"Hit it, Spot," commanded the doctor. Spot lost no time in performing an emergency Caesarean on a cow. Three minutes later the proud mother of a healthy little heifer was all sewed up and doing fine. Not bad, conceded the onlookers⁴, and Spot got a cookie from the doctor.

"Your turn, Fella," said the lawyer. Over went Fella, screwed the other two dogs, took their cookies, and went out to lunch.