Und sein eigner Vater hatte einen Pudel besessen; der war volle zwölf Jahre weg. Eines Abends, als der alte Lheureux durch die Stadt nach dem Gasthaus ging, sprang der Hund an ihm hoch.
Another had gone one hundred and fifty miles in a straight line, and swum four rivers; and his own father had possessed a poodle, which, after twelve years of absence, had all of a sudden jumped on his back in the street as he was going to dine in town.