I heard the dog-day locust here, and afterward on the carries, a sound which I had associated only with more open, if not settled ...countries. The area for locusts must be small in the Maine Woods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only two animals have entered the human household otherwise than as prisoners and become domesticated by other means than those of... enforced servitude: the dog and the cat. Two things they have in common, namely, that both belong to the order of carnivores and both serve man in their capacity of hunters. In all other charac teristics, above all in the manner of their association with man, they are as different as the night from the day. There is no domestic animal which has so radically altered its whole way of living, indeed its whole sphere of interests, that has become domestic in so true a sense as the dog: and there is no animal that, in the course of its century-old association with man, has altered so little as the cat. There is some truth in the assertion that the cat, with the exception of a few luxury breeds, such as Angora, Persians, and Siamese, is no domestic animal but a completely wild being. Maintaining its full independence it has taken up its abode in the houses and outhouses of man, for the simple reason that there are more mice there than elsewhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank... his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions--an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They found no trace of dog or cat; And some folks think unto this day... That burglars stole that pair away! But the truth about the cat and pup Is this: they ate each other up! Now what do you really think of that! The old Dutch clock it told me so, And that is how I came to know.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, fro...m Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Moneys is your suit. What should I say to you? Should I not say,... "Hath a dog money? Is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats?" Or Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this: "Fair sir, you spat on me on Wednesday last, You spurned me such a day, another time You called me dog; and for these courtesies I'll lend you thus much moneys?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who should come to my lodge this morning but a true Homeric or Paphlagonian man,--he had so suitable and poetic a name that I am s...orry I cannot print it here,--a Canadian, a woodchopper and post-maker, who can hole fifty posts in a day, who made his last supper on a woodchuck which his dog caught.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »