butcher's-dog

Updated: May 27, 2025

Depend upon this, as an infallible maxim to guide you through life: IT'S AS EASY TO GET A RICH WIFE AS A POOR ONE; the same bait that will hook a fly will hook a salmon. Dobble's reputation for courage was not increased by the butcher's-dog adventure; but mine stood very high: little Stubbs was voted the boldest chap of all the bold North Bungays.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Fatal Boots