I always thought 666 was the number of the beast because it was a paw print with three pads and three claws but then again I always get hold of the wrong end of the stick . hotclaws 00 : 11, 31 March 2009 ( UTC)
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Furphy employs both pathos and bathos and the narration teases the reader with its tangents, like a shaggy dog story . ( The pseudonym'Tom Collins'is slang for a tall story . ) There are hidden substories, and the narrator sometimes gets hold of the wrong end of the stick in untangling them, but the reader can nut them out.