He is the sauciest, most impudent fellow of the Green Forest, and never so happy as when he is making trouble for others.
— from The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
The moment his grandfather’s back was turned, George said to my father, “And now shake hands also with your son.”
— from Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son by Samuel Butler
He is a perfect little bantam-cock to fight, and never so happy as when he is in a row.
— from The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by Various
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