"Dingo" Quotes from Famous Books
... or wild dog, may not be an especially interesting animal to the student of natural history, but it is a very interesting one to the herdsman. For of all animals in Australia the dingo is the most intolerable nuisance on account of its fondness for mutton. Hunting the coyote on the plains of the United States is a pastime, but hunting the Australian dingo is a serious and monotonous ... — Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson
... close and growled into the ear of the venerable mischief-maker: "I don't know who set you on to thorn this crowd of men into a fight, and I don't care. But there ain't goin' to be no trouble here, and, if you keep on tryin' to make it, I'll give you one figger of the Portygee fandle-dingo." ... — The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day |