p'yart

Updated: March 22, 2026

The dog's pedigree, as his master had drawlingly proclaimed, was "p'yart houn', p'yart bull, p'yart cur, p'yart terrier, an' the rest of him wal, jes' dog." Reverse this and it will be Carpenter's: Just dog, with a sprinkling of bull, cur, terrier, and hound.

John Trotwood Moore - The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills