I saw this neat thing when I was in Québec City.
The inscription reads:
Je suis un chien qui ronge lo
En le rongeant je prend mon repos
Un tems viendra qui nest pas venu
Que je morderay qui maura mordu
Translation:
I am a dog that gnaws a bone
In gnawing it I take my rest
A time will come which is not yet
When I shall bite him who has bitten me
Golden Dod: stone bas-relief bearing the figure of a dog gnawing a bone.
The stone was built into a house erected by Timothée Roussel in Québec
City in 1688. It may have been set there by Roussel or by Nicholas
Philibert, who bought the house in 1734 and may have used the image to
protest the corrupt practices of Intendant François Bigot. In 1871 the
house was destroyed to make way for a post office, and the stone was
moved to the new building's portico.
The many legends connected with the Golden Dog all turn on revenge and
end in tragedy. One version was the basis for William Kirby's Golden Dog.
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