Dog and Duck
A public-house sign, to announce that ducks were hunted
by dogs within. The sport was to see the duck dive, and the dog after
it. At Lambeth there was a famous pleasure-resort so called, on the
spot where Bethlehem Hospital now stands.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Dog and Duck from Fact Monster:
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