Puddle-hound

You must breed fourteen or fifteen couple of small Puddle hounds, low and swift, and two couple of Terriers, which you may enter in one year, by this rule following.

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Meres, tarns or water holes, such as those splashed about in by ‘puddle-hounds’, aka poodles

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Supine upon a decorative chaise-longue, I was to represent humanity, while standing for the kingdom of the beasts we had the Marquis’ own firmly-built hunting dog, a puddle-hound (so called for their wet-looking coats) named Franz.

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Quivering in her chair at the end of the dining room table, Helena had looked like a shivering puddle-hound, but on the subject she had stayed curiously silent.

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