Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Woodman
Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern’d
The cheerful haunts of man;
Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears,
And tail cropp’d short, half lurcher and half cur,
His dog attends him.
Cowper.—The Task, Book V. Line 41.