What the first dogs had, like the last wolves, was what I call dogginess. Dogginess is the essence of dogdom writ large. Clearly the first dogs had dogginess, or we would not recognize them as related to modern dogs, but they certainly were not dogs as we know them now.

He has been seen with her, by one whom he would not know, at Cuper’s Gardens; dressed like a Sea-officer, and skulking, like a thief, into the privatest walks of the place.

The sun was rising; it gilt the hill tops and gradually threw its lustre over the dark pine forests on the mountain slopes.

You speak of rabbit boards in the other colonies. […] You have had nothing to do with the rabbit boards in Queensland?