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'What else, if I had been so happy as to win her affections and possess her heart? 'Win her affections, retorted Mr Boffin, with ineffable contempt, 'and possess her heart! Mew says the cat, Quack-quack says the duck, Bow-wow-wow says the dog! Win her affections and possess her heart! Mew, Quack-quack, Bow-wow!
How he would surprise them! He stood for a little, gloating in his own sensations. Then a desire to get home tugged him, and he scurried up the long brae. He stole round the corner of the House with the Green Shutters. Roger, the collie, came at him with a bow-wow-wow. "Roger!" he whispered, and cuddled him, and the old loyalist fawned on him and licked his hand.
'When John said, if he had been so happy as to win your affections and possess your heart, it come into my head to turn round upon him with "Win her affections and possess her heart! Mew says the cat, Quack quack says the duck, and Bow-wow-wow says the dog." I couldn't tell you how it come into my head or where from, but it had so much the sound of a rasper that I own to you it astonished myself.
"Bow-wow-wow!" he barked and growled at the same time. "Oh, look at him!" laughed Hal "He's a regular cake himself." "Don't let him run through the house that way!" called Mother Blake. "He'll get the carpets and furniture all dough. Get him, Hal!" Hal made a grab for the little pet dog, and caught him by his tail.
They got into the habit of running up-hill when scared, and their children did the same, and their children's children did the same, and now even the farmyard Sheep do so, although they long ago forgot the reason why. "Bow-wow-wow!" rang out on the still morning air. "There's Collie!" cried the Lambs joyfully. "He's coming to take us home. Let's bleat to help him find us more quickly."
"Bow-wow-wow!" barked little Dog-on-wheels, "why don't you scare a body right out of his skin, Jack? I was asleep right beside your box." Teddy Bear began to growl. "Anyone would think this was a menagerie instead of a playroom," he said. "Yes, they would," said Calico Cat, with a spiteful twist of her tail. "Your growl helps me to make it real."
You're only a fowl, an owl, a cow, a sow, a doll, a poll; a poor, old, good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a Concord bog. Cool, now cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your crowing, old cock! Don't frown so don't! Don't hollo, nor howl nor growl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord, John, how you do look!
She looked about her, and ran hither and thither gathering fruit and flowers, and her little dog Frisk, who was bright green all over, and had but one ear, danced before her, crying 'Bow-wow-wow, and turning head over heels in the most enchanting way.
Collier's Corrected Folio, affirming that "the quantity and accent proper to 'thou' make any addition to the line superfluous." We should like to hear Mr. White read the verse as he prints it. The result would be something of this kind: Thou-ou for whom Jove would swear, which would be like the 'bow-wow-wow before the Lord' of the old country-choirs.
I just guess I'll run back and see if there is a hole where I can crawl through the bushes." So he started to run back, but, no sooner had he done so, than the dog saw him, and came rushing at him with a loud, "Bow-wow-wow! Bow-wow-wow!" "My, but he's savage!" thought the rabbit. "I wonder if I can get away in time?"