The Amazing Adventures of Archibald Esq.

Literary Hound: The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

Alexander McCall Smith’s The 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom happens to feature a very fine dachshund, who, through no fault of his own, suffers a number of unfortunate adventures….

All of which makes me think of that pithy old dog proverb — The dog-house is no place to keep a sausage. Awoof!

Quite right! We belong not in the dog house but in a palace, a chateau, a house fit for a king or a cardinal…

All due to the main protagonist’s limited estimation of us long-bodied and short-legged hounds.

But just as with Gary Larson’s cartoons that poke fun at the form and figure of the badger hound, so too in the case of McCall Smith one senses a deep underlying affection for the sausage dog.

Well worth a read. What more can I say without giving it all away?

Awoof! Archibald Esquire

Posted 05 Jan 07

2 Responses to “Literary Hound: The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs”

1. […] Your humble (but sometimes vain) literary hound likes to think that the irreverent treatment of the noble badger hound in this work in the Ingelfield series reveals a tender fondness of the long bodied and short legged sausage dog. Awoof! […]

   Archie - Dog tales - Literary Hound: On Alexander McCall Smith @ 4:34 pm, 10 February 2007

2. […] McCall Smith’s Finer Points of Sausage Dogs is surely to become a modern ‘classic.’ Wonderful, witty and wacky, without being overly surreal. Super duper stuff! Awoof! Archie […]

   Archie - Dog tales - Alexander McCall Smith @ 11:25 pm, 06 May 2007

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