About now you are thinking the loveable pooch got hit by a Mack Truck or was dog napped by some diabolical scientist bent on discovering why dogs are so loyal.

Lic. She hath the ears of a want. / Pec. Doth she want ears?

Under the aegis of France a group of buffer states would be born. Austria would cede Venetia to Italy and receive Silesia from Prussia. France had only to promise Austria her neutrality and to keep Italy on its leash.

’Tain’t a thing wrong that a quart of coon-dick wouldn’t cure. You haven’t been gettin’ yo’ right likker lately, eh?”