Turnspit Dog There is comprehended under the curs of the coarsest kind, a certain dog excellent in kitchen service. For when any meat is to be roasted, they go into a wheel; which they turning round with the weight of their bodies; and so diligently look to their business, that no drudge nor scullion can do the feat more cunningly. Whom the popular sort hereupon call, Turnspits.
Water Drawer And these be of the greater and the weightier sort, drawing water out of wells and deep pits, by a wheel which they turn about, by the moving of their burthenous bodies. Tinker Cur Because with marvelous patience, they bear big budgets fraught with tinker's tools and metal meet to mend kettles, porridge-pots, skillets, and chafers, and other such trumpery; requisite for their occupation and loitering trade: easing him of great burden, which otherwise he himself should carry upon his shoulders; which condition hath challenged unto them the foresaid name. Of English Dogs (Of Englishe Dogges), Dr. Johannes Caius, originally published in 1576. Reprinted in 1993 by Beech Publishing House, West Sussex, England. Pages 32, 36, 37. ISBN: 1 85736 070 2 --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oooh! Thanks- I've been looking for documentation about turnspit > dogs- some descriptions of them (post period, alas) sound very much > like a modern corgi. :D > > Cait ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/PJ_qlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA_Coursing/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
