“I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
"On the Collar of a Dog".
“You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.”
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