various contributors, Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3830… (19th and 20th century)
“ I can fight. Ask the dog at the house at the corner of our road what he thinks, and just take a look at his ears. They speak for themselves. Then, again, I can hear and smell a great deal better than my master, and could keep watch while he is asleep (I am told he will have to sleep in a ditch!) , and after one or two sniffs and bites I should soon learn to tell a German. In time of danger the place of every English dog is by his master's side, and he doesn't mind dying there either. Can't you help us to get to The Front with our masters? ”
