I'm always been pore as a DAWG, 'n' wuthless, 'n' no 'count fur nothin'.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
Lak a skeered DAWG, young missus!
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
"Don't be 'ard on a pore cove, mum," he mumbled, desperately rubbing the coal dust on to his face; "you wouldn't go for to turn a DAWG out on a night like this, let alone a pore chap outer work!"
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit