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The dog's nose is cold even when his tongue is reeking; and as he walked slowly along, his exterior showed the proper thermo-metric nonchalance—it was not the time for a pyrometric measurement within the heart.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay