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color, betwixt black and grey, which was apt to escape in elf-locks from under her mutch when she was thrown into violent agitation; long skinny hands terminated by stout talons, grey eyes, thin lips, a robust person, a broad though fat chest, capital wind, and a voice that could match a choir of fishwomen.--Sir W. Scott. _St. Ronan's Well_, i (time George III.). (So good a housewife was this eccentric landlady, that a cookery-book has been published bearing her name; the authoress is Mrs. Johnstone, a Scotchwoman.) DODSON, a young farmer, called upon by Death on his wedding day. Death told him he must quit his Susan and go with him. "With you!" the hapless husband cried; "young as I am and unprepared?" Death then told him he would not disturb him yet, but would call again after giving him three warnings. When he was 80 years of age, Death called again. "So soon returned!" old Dodson cried. "You know you promised me three warnings." Death then told him that as he was "lame and deaf and blind," he had received his three warnings.--Mrs. Thrale, [Piozzi], _The Three Warnings_. DODSON AND FOGG (Messrs.), two unprincipled lawyers, who undertake on their own speculation to bring an action against Mr. Pickwick for "breach of promise" and file accordingly the famous suit of "Bardell _v_. Pickwick."--C. Dickens, _The Pickwick Papers_ (1836). DOE _(John)_ and _Richard Roe_, the fictitious plaintiff and defendant in an action of ejectment. Men of straw. DOEG, Saul's herdsman, who told him that the priest Abim'elech. had supplied David with food; whereupon the king sent him to kill Abimelech, and Doeg slew priests to the number of four score and five (1 _Samuel_ xxii. 18). In pt. ii. of the satire called _Absalom and Achitophel_, Elkaneh Settle is called Doeg, because he "fell upon" Dryden with his pen, but was only a "herdsman or driver of asses." Doeg, tho' without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody. Let him rail on ... But if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offense. Tate, _Absalom and Achitophel_, ii. (1682). DOG _(Agrippa's)._ Cornelius Agrippa had a dog which was generally suspected of being a spirit incarnate. _Arthur's Dog_ "Cavall." _Dog of Belgrade_, the camp suttler, was named "Clumsey." _Lord Byron's Dog_, "Boatswain." It was buried in the garden of Newstead Abbey. _Dog of Catherine de Medicis_, "Phoebe," a lap dog
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