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            "Man's Best Friend" (1964) 
E. L. Wisty
        
Variant: If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
“The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone”
"Lowside of the Road", Mule Variations (1999).
“When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.”
Source: Magic Bleeds
Source: Bedtime for Frances
                                
                                    “The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”
                                
                                
                                
                                
                            
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 8.
 
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                        