The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
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... regular diner at a London restaurant was one evening interested to see enter a man wearing a stick of celery behind his ear . The same pheno- menon occurred on six successive evenings . Then the rugged 44 Development.
... regular diner at a London restaurant was one evening interested to see enter a man wearing a stick of celery behind his ear . The same pheno- menon occurred on six successive evenings . Then the rugged 44 Development.
Page 45
... regular diner went across to the oddity and said , ' Excuse me , sir , but why this momentous departure from the 1 In another version it is a carrot . In yet another , the reason is stated thus : ' My wife thinks that the celery didn't ...
... regular diner went across to the oddity and said , ' Excuse me , sir , but why this momentous departure from the 1 In another version it is a carrot . In yet another , the reason is stated thus : ' My wife thinks that the celery didn't ...
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... regular and orderly customers and perhaps to regard them as an asset , so that when , one evening , the two dogs arrived without their master and hopped up on to their customary stools , he served them with the customary gin apiece and ...
... regular and orderly customers and perhaps to regard them as an asset , so that when , one evening , the two dogs arrived without their master and hopped up on to their customary stools , he served them with the customary gin apiece and ...
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