Stephen Maturin of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series retells the 19th century humourist Theodore Hook's pun that the dog watch is so-named because it is " cur-tailed " ( " curtailed ", i . e . shortened ).
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At the beginning there's a period in which the music comes to a standstill, and Johnny is first heard screaming in the dark and then hiding behind a door, avoiding the white light beams, while his dog watches.
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Ultimately, a quarter of an hour into the second dog watch, 1815, on 16 July 1945, " Richland " entered the Philippine area, and reached Leyte Gulf at noon the following day, anchoring in Berth 38 at 2130.
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He gains a clue from Finch, another of his men, who suffers from delusions and claims that " " God's in the maintop, but the Devil's in the cable tier, but only in the dog watches " ".
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He appeared on Smalltime, and was joined in 1962 by Fred Barker ( a shaggy dog made for Postgate / Firmin 1961 production The Dog Watch ) and in 1963 by Whiffles, an otter puppet, and Penelope, another owl.
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Less than a half hour into the first dog watch on 9 October, while steaming in company with " Chicago ", " Arethusa ", " Goliah ", " Arctic " and " Undaunted ", the yacht spotted another suspicious object on the surface and went to general quarters.
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In today's Derby Trial, English-bred Dog Watch, with Jose Valdivia Jr . riding, tries to give owner Gary Biszantz and trainer Mike Puype their second stakes win of the short Fairplex season, the pair having teamed up to win the E . B . Johnson on Sunday with Argentina-bred Fontal.
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They know their master's fields, and are singularly attentive to the cattle that are in them : A good Dog watches, goes his rounds; and, if any strange cattle should happen to appear amongst the herd, although unbidden, he quickly flies at them, and with keen bites obliges them to depart.
