There's plenty of people that don't know that.

And, by the way, sir, that chain's none too strong for 'im.

I got it when he wasn't mor'n half grown.

Ye'd bether git him a new one." When the man had gone, I stood and looked at the dog, and could not help hoping that he would learn to like me without the intervention of a thrashing.

Such harsh methods were not always necessary, I felt sure.
After our evening meal--a combination of dinner and supper, of which Euphemia used to say that she did not know whether to call it dinper or supner--we went out together to look at our new guardian.
Euphemia was charmed with him.
"How massive!" she exclaimed.