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He says you can't back him down." "I didn't," said Jack. "I said you couldn't scare me out of telling who tried to blow up the school-house stove, and let other boys take the whipping, by promising me a drubbing from Pewee Rose. If Pewee wants to put himself in as mean a crowd as yours, and be your puppy-dog to fight for you, let him come on. He's a fool if he does, that's all I have to say.
Nevertheless one plain impression remained, the same that you see in the ears and nose and stumbling feet and wagging tail of every puppy-dog you meet on the streets, that this bright world is a famous place, just made a-purpose for little ones to play in. Sitting on their tails in a solemn row the wolf cubs bent their heads and pointed their noses gravely at the sea.
Had my father been asking after the amputation of the tail of a puppy-dog he could not have done it in a more careless air: the system which Dr. Slop had laid down, to treat the accident by, no way allowed of such a mode of enquiry. He sat down. Pray, Sir, quoth my uncle Toby, in a manner which could not go unanswered, in what condition is the boy? 'Twill end in a phimosis, replied Dr. Slop.
"What extraordinarily lovely flowers you have and how charming you've made everything! You're always doing something women are always changing the position of their furniture. If one happens to come in in the dark, no matter how well one knows the place, one sits down on a hat or a puppy-dog.
So he was pleased to smile upon me again, and to give my mother five pounds, and to promise that I should be well bestowed in his household as a waiting-woman, or Bower-maiden, or some such like capacity; and then he made me a present, as though I were a puppy-dog, to Her Grace the Duchess, and having affairs of state to attend to, thought no more about 'Brimstone Betty. My sprightly ways and random talk amused her Grace for awhile; but she had too many gewgaws and playthings, and I found, after not many days, that my popularity was on the wane, and that I could not hope to maintain it against the attractions of a French waiting-maid, a monkey, a parrot, a poodle, and a little Dwarfish boy-attendant that was half fiddler and half buffoon.
I'd go with you myself though it's rough traveling, the steepest trail on the mountain only my man is laid up with the rheumatiz, hangin' on to him like a puppy-dog to a root." "Oh! we can find it for ourselves hurrah!" shouted Una, almost squinting with anticipation. "I've never stood upon a real mountain wishing-stone before. Who who knows what may come of it?"
"Well, I've heard of the Chinese eating puppy-dog stew; it comes after birds'-nest soup, you know." "Papa!" indignantly. Mr. Forester lifted the little fellow out of the basket and set him on the floor. He began running along with such a queer little waddle that they all laughed. Then he stopped and contemplated them questioningly, as much as to say, "What are you laughing at?"
By the way, you know about everything: have they got back his chlamys yet, which Mithridates took to Cos? Pompey wore it last, didn't he? in his triumph, too just fancy Pompey in the cloak of Alexander! a puppy-dog in a lion's skin!
And so he whimpered and cried, lost child, lost puppy-dog that he was, only half a year existent in the fair world sharp with joy and suffering. And he wanted Skipper. Skipper was a god.
In spite of his magnificent feet, and his homeliness, and his thumb-handsidedness, I got to feel sort of as if he was my boy though if ever I have a boy like Aleck, I put in my vote for marriage being a failure, and everything lost, honor and all. Probably it was more as if he was a puppy-dog, or some other little critter that couldn't take care of itself.
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