A pun is made on his name: "Should Owled acquaintance be forgot?"
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Yes, a long day, and a long, long evening, and it was like a whole week had passed before we stood under the tree and owly-Owled to Old Dibs.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne