<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343016" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Stray Dog</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, Towser (I'm thinking your name must be Towser),<br>You're a decentish puppy as puppy dogs go,<br>For you never, I'm sure, could have dined upon trowser,<br>And your tail's unimpeachably curled just so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, dear me! your name-if 'tis yours-is a 'poser':<br>Its meaning I cannot get anywise at,<br>When spoken correctly perhaps it is Toser,<br>And means one who toses. Max Muller, how's that?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ne'er was ingenious at all at divining<br>A word's prehistorical, primitive state,<br>Or finding its root, like a mole, by consigning<br>Its bloom to the turnep-top's sorrowful fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, now that I think of it well, I'm no nearer<br>The riddle's solution than ever-for how's<br>My pretty invented word, 'tose,' any clearer<br>In point of its signification than 'towse'?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, Towser (or Toser), I mean to rename you<br>In honor of some good and eminent man,<br>In the light and the heat of whose quickening fame you<br>May grow to an eminent dog if you can.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In sunshine like his you'll not long be a croucher:<br>The Senate shall hear you-for that I will vouch.<br>Come here, sir. Stand up. I rechristen you Goucher.<br>But damn you! I'll shoot you if ever you gouch!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343016" data-title="To A Stray Dog de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Well, Towser (I'm thinking your name must be Towser), You're a decentish puppy as puppy dogs go, For you never, I'm sure, could have dined upon trowser, And your tail's unimpeachably curled just so. But, dear me! your name-if 'tis yours-is a 'pos..."></div> </div> </div>

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