No. not Butter. As you can see, during the winter, Butter's days are spent following the sun. He moves from room to room as the sun crosses the sky. I could probably set my watch by noticing what bed or windowsill he hangs out in.
No, the words were part of a notice in the local paper placed by someone trying to "give away" a Yorkshire Terrier. The Yorkshire Terrier is a small dog breed of Terrier type, developed in the 1800s in the historical area of Yorkshire in England. The defining features of the breed are its small size and its silky blue and tan coat. The breed is nicknamed Yorkie and is placed in the Toy Terrier section of the Terrier Group by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale.
Much of the history of the breed is lost. I did find this reference: "If we consider that the mill operatives who originated the breed...were nearly all ignorant men, unaccustomed to imparting information for public use, we may see some reason why reliable facts have not been easily attained."
The ideal Yorkshire Terrier character or "personality" is described with a "carriage very upright" and "conveying an important air". Though small, the Yorkshire Terrier is intelligent and active, loves attention and should not show the soft temperament seen in lapdogs.
Butter fetches a little toy when you throw it. The toy used to have feathers! Notice his upright carriage. He is very intelligent, and he has only tried to bite the vet the first time he was getting a "shot".
- "Old friends, old friends,
- Sat on their parkbench like bookends
- A newspaper blown through the grass
- Falls on the round toes
of the high shoes of the old friends
- Old friends, winter companions, the old men
- Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
- The sounds of the city sifting through trees
- Settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends
- Can you imagine us years from today,
- Sharing a parkbench quietly
- How terribly strange to be seventy
- Old friends, memory brushes the same years,
- Silently sharing the same fears
Butter doesn't like to share his toys. The others have learned a few tricks of their own. Dusty has "chill" down to a "T". I think he has reserved this seat for the Super Bowl. There is a radiator just below.
The creature, called Swamp Thing, was originally conceived as Alec Holland mutating into a vegetable-like creature, a "muck-encrusted mockery of a man". However, under writer Alan Moore, Swamp Thing was reinvented as an elemental entity created upon the death of Alec Holland, with Holland's memory and personality intact. He is described as "a plant that thought it was Alec Holland, a plant that was trying its level best to be Alec Holland."
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