Dog Days of Summer

Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon Direct in Ninety-seven Hours and Twenty Minutes, and a Trip around it. Trans. by Louis Mercier and Eleanor King [De la terre à la lune], 1874. 'Diana and Satellite."

The two dogs, Diana and Satellite, figure prominently in the first part of the story; they are forgotten when the capsule returns to earth. Verne may have composed the ending much later than the rest of the book.

Some of us like summer and its accompanying heat, but others have dubbed the middle of July the dog days of summer...

—Elizabeth Periale