As lazy as Ludlum's Dog

This proverb is repeated somewhat differently in *The Doctor, &c.*, "As *lazy* as *Ludlum's* dog, as *leaned* his head against a wall to bark." I venture to suggest that this is simply one of the large class of alliterative proverbs so common in every language, and often without meaning. In Devonshire they say as "Busy as Batty," but no one knows who "Batty" was. As I have mentioned *The Doctor, &c.*, I may was well jot down two more odd sayings from the same old curiosity-shop:—"As proud as old COLE's dog which took the wall of a dung-CART, and got CRUSHED by the wheel." And, "As queer as Dic…