This choice fellow isn't like ordinary dogs." "Do you call the tiger Lelaps ?" asked Ulrich.

"An odd name." "I got him from a student at Tubingen, dainty Junker Fritz of Hallberg, in exchange for an elephant's tusk I obtained in the Levant, and he owes his name to the merry rogue.

I tell you, he's wiser than many learned men; he ought to be called Doctor Lelaps." "He's a pretty creature." "Pretty! More, far more! For instance, at Naples we had the famous Mortadella sausage for breakfast, and being engaged in eager conversation, I forgot him.

What did my Lelaps do?
He slipped quietly into the garden, returned with a bunch of forget-me-nots in his mouth, and offered it to me, as a gallant presents a bouquet to his fair one.
That meant: dogs liked sausage too, and it was not seemly to forget him.
What do you say to that show of sense ?" "I think your imagination more remarkable than the dog's sagacity." "You believed in my good fortune in the old days, do you now doubt this true story ?" "To be sure, that is rather preposterous, for whoever loyally and faithfully trusts good-fortune--your good fortune--is ill-advised.

Have you composed any new songs ?" "'That is all over now!" sighed the trooper.