trick-dog

Updated: May 12, 2025

The owner was a lumpish, ungainly fellow, astonishingly bow-legged. He had a little yapping dog, which jumped backwards and forwards between his knees like a trick-dog through a hoop. Preparations had been made for my coming, "by his lordship," as the farmer blabbed out.

George W. Gough - The Yeoman Adventurer