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The following extracts from the _Travels of Sir William Brereton_ may answer the inquiry respecting the ships called "Whelps": --
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Ungrateful Whelps - Oh the joys of motherhood by Aimee on Sunday, Dec 17, 2006 at 12: 07: 27 PM
Ungrateful whelps: Getting along with grown-up children is hard work! 2006
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Now I know I can go hunting Whelps in the Wetlands, instead of heading all the way to Ashenvale to find Blink Dragons.
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"At the return of this fleet two of the _Whelps_ were cast away, and three ships more."
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When your Whelps are brought up, _enter_ them not into Hunting till they are at least a Year and half old: That is, if whelpt in _March_, enter them _September_ come Twelve-Month; if in _April_, in _October_ come
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When you put them together, observe, as near as you can, if the _Moon_ be in _Aquarius_ or _Gemini_; because the Whelps will then never run Mad, and the Litter, will be double as many Dog, as
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But before I treat of the keeping your Hounds in Health by curing their diseases, I must speak a Word or two of the way to _Breed good Whelps_, viz. Having a Hound and a Bratch of that general Goodness in Size,
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Suffer not your Whelps to Suck above two Months, and then _Weane_ them.
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_Whelps and dams of murderous foes whom none But we had spared ...
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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It would also carry away their Children, and teach them to suck its Whelps.
The Pilgrim’s Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 600-699 1909
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