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• But when a clerk crawls into the office in the morning like a sick setter pup, and leaps from his stool at night with the spring of a tiger, I'm a little afraid that if I sent him off to take charge of a branch house he wouldn't always be around when customers were. —  Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham ; Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."
• Stay where you are, pup, and hold my horse Crusoe seized the end of the line, which was fastened to the horse's nose, in his mouth, and lay down on a hillock of moss, submissively placing his chin on his fore-paws, and watching his master as he stepped noiselessly through the wood. —  The Dog Crusoe and his Master
• I'll tell ye what it is, pup, the next time you an' I floor Caleb, I'll put the claws round your neck, an' make ye wear 'em ever arter, so I will The dog did not seem quite to appreciate this piece of prospective good fortune. —  The Dog Crusoe and his Master
• Another pup was born beneath his feet before he dispatched the mother with a last furious kick, and then the mangled body lay quivering in the midst of the whining pups, which were awkwardly groping for their mother's teats. —  The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories
• That it might not exhaust its foster-mother the pup was weaned a fortnight later, and Jeanne undertook to feed it herself with a feeding-bottle; she had named it Toto, but the baron rechristened it, and called it Massacre The priest did not go to see Jeanne again. —  The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories

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