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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 1 (May 1, 1933)

Sea Dogs and Hot Dogs

Sea Dogs and Hot Dogs.

In daze of yore, when the professors of unnatural mystery assured the sea-dog that the earth was as flat as a flounder's hat, the sea dog kept his doubts “doggo” for fear of featuring as a hot dog in the grill grade of the Heresy Stakes. He put to sea to see, and proved that when in doubt the best way out is to go to see. He rounded off a flat argument, vindicated his vanity, and proved it is possible to go a long way without going “over the edge.” Youth likewise hastens to hold the bird of passage in the hand, rather than to hearken to its croaks from a cloistered cage. Youth is only age with its hair on, and if no hair begets brains, a pike is not such a poor fish after all.