dorg

• “A dorg is a very devoted animal, and should not be taxed, as its master often is, by its various eccentricities -- when it makes off with his dinner, for instance, or leaves dental impressions on the meat in the pantry.”

  Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870

• “Didn't we lead a 'dorg's loife for two poun'ten a month?”

  The Nigger of the Narcissus

• “LinkIf you don't like the dumplings, say "Car do far dorg et.”

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• “‘Yes; there was an oldish, very quiet, but determined-like man — he had a stunnin’ dorg with him — and a young man something like this gentleman — I mean the prisoner.”

  Robbery Under Arms

• “Whar dey lands 'tween dar an 'de din'-room don't nobody know but dat yaller dorg.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.

• “I noticed, however, that this dorg of mine was mostly fond of the smaller fry, attacking them most vigorously, and barking from the door-steps at the larger.”

  Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870

• “I once had a dorgy (diminutive of dorg, _alias_ puppy,) which was very fond of me, especially when I gave it something nice -- which is nothing but human nature in the third degree.”

  Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870

• “I could not get it to catch mice; it seemed to think them third cousins, or something of the kind, and was very fond of playing with them; while, on the other hand, I had a large dorg which we kept by us when we took grain from the rick -- I think he managed about 30 per minute.”

  Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870

• “I once tried my small dorg at the swimming business, by throwing him into a shallow pond.”

  Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870

• “As this is the time I and my dorg go visiting, I must jerk up the machine for the present.”

  Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870

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