Knute was a little black lab that grew and grew and grew until he was 160 pounds of big hairy dog He was as sweet and nice as he was big He lived in the North and found many friends. In this story, Knute dreams he and his best friends, Jiffy the Squirrel and Douglas the Frog, fly on the back of swans to find adventures in Africa. But it's only a dream Oh, how real a dream can seem.