Tray almost certainly was a dachshund.
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The Dachshund in Literature
Of course there are books about dachshunds, such as H.A. Rey's famous children's series celebrating her dachshund "Pretzel." But the dachshund has also had a profound impact upon serious literature. This is a photo of famous author P.G. Wodehouse with his pet dachshund, "Bertie." Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (known familiarly to friends and fans as Plum) wrote 76 novels and 291 short stories, in addition to several plays and dozens of lyrics from musicals. In the last days of Wodehouse's life, he and his dachshund were inseparable. Like many widowed spouses, Bertie passed away from natural causes shortly after Wodehouse's death. Some have said that this dog's sage demeanor was the inspiration for Wodehouse's most famous fictional character, the ubiquitous and omniscient "Jeeves" - the manservant to the fictional Bertie Wooster, an upper crust good-for-naught who relied on Jeeves to get him out of every sticky fix in which he found himself.
Of course, Wodehouse is not the only great author to have favored the dachshund. The historical record reveals that William Shakespeare himself, the greatest writer of the English language, kept a pack of dachshunds at Stratford-upon-Avon, where he did his best writing. He certainly had them in mind hen he wrote this passage: "The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me." (King Lear, Act III, scene iv). Irishman James Joyce, regarded by some as the greatest author of the 20th Century, eschewed his homeland's wolfhounds for the companionship of a pair of dachshunds he called Uly and "the Jesuit." Even great American author J.D. Salinger kept a dachshund named Joey as his constant companion. More modernly, great authors including William Faulkner, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, militarist Tom Clancey, and literary heavyweight Danielle Steele all have shared their lives with dachshunds.
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