three-dog night-with antedating(1932)

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Jul 25 19:07:49 UTC 2014


At 7/25/2014 09:34 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>The practice, if not the English phrase must go back to the earliest days
>of canine domestication. I guess the dogs call it the same thing.

I'm wondering if "<n>-dog might" can be found in writings about the 
early Antarctic exploration -- 1900s and 1910s.

Joel 

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