The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
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When served with vegetables , he took the cauliflower and rubbed it in his hair . Gazing at him with ecstasy and curiosity , she tremulously asked : ' Oh , do tell me , Mr-- , why , , precisely why , you do that ?
When served with vegetables , he took the cauliflower and rubbed it in his hair . Gazing at him with ecstasy and curiosity , she tremulously asked : ' Oh , do tell me , Mr-- , why , , precisely why , you do that ?
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On arriving , early one afternoon , at a village named - well , it might have been named - Moldon - the - Green , the captain found that one of his team had succumbed to the potency of the cider served at lunch .
On arriving , early one afternoon , at a village named - well , it might have been named - Moldon - the - Green , the captain found that one of his team had succumbed to the potency of the cider served at lunch .
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Bursting with curiosity , the barman exclaimed : ' Excuse me , sir , but this is the first time I've ever served a kangaroo with a whisky . I regard the incident as a good omen . ' Having given the barman a long , cool , level look ...
Bursting with curiosity , the barman exclaimed : ' Excuse me , sir , but this is the first time I've ever served a kangaroo with a whisky . I regard the incident as a good omen . ' Having given the barman a long , cool , level look ...
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| Title | The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
| Author | Eric Partridge |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Philosophical Library, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802212794, 9780802212795 |
| Length | 107 pages |
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