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_As lazy as Ludlum's Dog_ (No. 24. p. 382.).--This proverb is repeated
somewhat differently in _The Doctor, &c._, "As _lazy_ as _Ludlum's_
dog, as _leaned_ his head against a wall to bark." I venture to
suggest that this is simply one of the large class of alliterative
proverbs so common in every language, and often without meaning. In
Devonshire they say as "Busy as Batty," but no one knows who "Batty"
was. As I have mentioned _The Doctor, &c._, I may was well jot down
two more odd sayings from the same old curiosity-shop:--"As proud as
old COLE's dog which took the wall of a dung-CART, and got CRUSHED by
the wheel." And, "As queer as Dick's hat-band, that went nine times
round his hat and was fastened by a rush at last."