"Little dog" refers to Lyttleton in the nursery rhyme, for when the under-trafficing came to light, Lord Grey, it is said, was so bewildered at his position that he doubted his own identity, and exclaimed—
"If I be I, as I suppose I be,
Well, I've a 'Little dog,' and he'll know me!"
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Transcriber's Endnote:
On p. [96]. But the stick would not. has been added as line 6 of the poem beginning "There was an old woman swept her house ..."