" For the first time the Mordaunt Estate noticed a small, fluffy poodle, with an important expression, seated behind the railing.

Did you bring your pet poodle and your fancywork, and those beautiful red and yellow socks you used to wear?

That might have been all right, only Roly-Poly, the little fat poodle dog, did the same thing.

Besides, lap dogs are much better now than in the days when the choice lay only between sore-eyed white poodles and pugs.

A faithful poodle, rather!

The Pope Sylvester II. had also a favorite black poodle, in whom the Devil was supposed to have taken up his abode.

"Courage," her gray poodle, left deep footprints in the dust, as he trotted ahead over the well-known road, and I felt an increasing affection for him upon learning that he, too, had crossed the plains in an emigrant wagon and had reached the Fort at about the same time I had reached the snow.

In passing to-day along the deep sand road, calling itself the street of Darien, my notice was attracted by an extremely handsome and intelligent-looking poodle, standing by a little wizen-looking knife-grinder, whose features were evidently European, though he was nearly as black as a negro who, strange to say, was discoursing with him in very tolerable French.

"Do you know that that bulldog of yours killed my wife's little harmless, affectionate poodle?" "Well, what are you going to do about it?" "Would you be offended if I was to present him with a nice brass collar?" Fleshy Miss Muffet Sat down on Tuffet, A very good dog in his way; When she saw what she'd done, She started to run And Tuffet was buried next day.

The old woman who uses the five-foot lake as the family wash-tub, brought out all her clothes, the grand-baby, and the snub-nosed poodle that wears a red bib, to celebrate the sunshine by a carnival of washing.

He always came at dinner-time and brought an ugly poodle with him, whose paws soiled the furniture.

"Do you know that that bulldog of yours killed my wife's little harmless, affectionate poodle?" "Well, what are you going to do about it?" "Would you be offended if I was to present him with a nice brass collar?" Fleshy Miss Muffet Sat down on Tuffet, A very good dog in his way; When she saw what she'd done, She started to run And Tuffet was buried next day.

She saw an unhappy poodle in red breeches shot as a deserter in spite of his honest looks.

The last straw upon Carl's breaking back was the arrival of his father, who descended upon him with a bass viol, an enormous basket-bed for his beloved poodles, and a large bundle of debts, as well as an increased luggage of eccentricities.

He was a little man of nearly fifty years, with a very bald head and an extremely long moustache, which when waxed at the ends made him look as fierce as a clipped poodle.