Doggly

Po Doggly looked beside himself with curiosity as they emerged from the jail into the outer office.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

Po Doggly at once cried out, "Is there a body here so foolish as to claim there's any impediment to the marriage of this pair of good and godly citizens?"

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

Ma Bartlett was a frail old lady who once was a schoolteacher but now lived in the old cabin in the woods that Po Doggly built when he first settled in the area; she got a small pension from somewhere and mostly spent her days under an oak tree by Hatrack River, catching catfish and letting them go.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

Doggly gestured him to pass through the door and come into the hall.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

Po Doggly squinted and looked the innkeeper in the eye.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

"And you, really don't want my protection?" asked Doggly.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

Po Doggly and John Binder pushed the boats off the shore before the others were even mounted on their horses or properly seated in the carriage; Whitley Physicker waved from Binder's boat.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

They came to the river, where Po Doggly waited, watching over two boats.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

The whooping and hollering in the street, with youngsters or drunken oldsters riding their horses at a breakneck speed up and down until Sheriff Doggly or some deputy could either stop the horse or shoot it, that guaranteed no sleep for anyone, not early, anyway.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

"So would I," said Alvin, And then: "Sheriff Doggly, Peggy Larner wouldn't still be out there, would she?"

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995