The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
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... published two years later : Engraved on the Collar of a Dog which to his Royal Highness . I gave I am his Highness ' dog at Kew ; Pray tell me , Sir , whose Dog are you ? In 1760 or thereabouts , Oliver Goldsmith wrote an Elegy on the ...
... published two years later : Engraved on the Collar of a Dog which to his Royal Highness . I gave I am his Highness ' dog at Kew ; Pray tell me , Sir , whose Dog are you ? In 1760 or thereabouts , Oliver Goldsmith wrote an Elegy on the ...
Page 53
... published in 1945 , we read an illuminating com- ment : " The comparatively recent type of story- the " Shaggy Dog " yarn . ' This book contains eleven stories , most of them fully qualified ' shaggy dogs ' , the two or three exceptions ...
... published in 1945 , we read an illuminating com- ment : " The comparatively recent type of story- the " Shaggy Dog " yarn . ' This book contains eleven stories , most of them fully qualified ' shaggy dogs ' , the two or three exceptions ...
Page 83
... reached its peak , the goanna put his head in the door . ' If you chaps don't turn it up , ' he said sharply , ' I won't go at all . ' Many years ago Collier's Weekly published , im- plicatively as 83 The ' Shaggy Dog ' Itself.
... reached its peak , the goanna put his head in the door . ' If you chaps don't turn it up , ' he said sharply , ' I won't go at all . ' Many years ago Collier's Weekly published , im- plicatively as 83 The ' Shaggy Dog ' Itself.
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