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<\/a>Clyde, the muse<\/p><\/div>\n
One Sunday morning, I was doodling and having coffee with my girlfriend. My muse arrived on the ears of her pitbull-pointer mix, Clyde, begging at my side. I began a dialogue with Clyde. I asked the questions and I provided the voice-over (which is said to sound like Julia Child). Truly, such a noble hound has a long and storied pedigree. And here is what came out of our conversation:\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0<\/p>\n Early 20th century America was a place for a hungry hound to rise from rags to riches. Clyde D., painted here in his finest top hat, built a small dog food company into the largest purveyor of chicken byproducts in the western hemisphere. The famous slogan \u201cNecks, asses, beaks and combs\u201d can still be seen carved into the fa\u00e7ade of the magnificent headquarters building of the Happy Cock Dog Food Co.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In the\u00a0colonial era of the late 1800s, Clydes traveled throughout the world. Here is Tarboosh Clyde on a visit to Beirut, the Paris of the Middle East, where he rolled in all the luxuries the City had to offer\u2014including a fez for every tail.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Venice\u2019s sea power provided the revenue for the flowering of art and culture in the 13th century. This fine fresco shows Marco Clydo engaged in the gentlemanly pursuits of the day, singing and baying at the moon on the banks of Venice\u2019s great canals.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This third-century Christian icon depicts Saint Clyde\u2014most famous for the so-called “miracle of the bones.” When the Emperor of Byzantium decreed that no treats\u00a0would be shared with his Christian subjects, Saint Clyde intervened, causing bone-shaped biscuits to gush forth from the bowls of the emperor\u2019s mangy packs.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nTarboosh Clyde<\/h4>\n
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Marco Clydo<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Saint Clyde of Antioch<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Augustan Clyde<\/strong><\/h4>\n