Most pups know Degas as a Poodle who is an artist with the patience of a tinkerer and the timing of a comedian. Degas insists the leaning tree leans because it is listening, and nobody has had the heart to test it. Bakers slip Degas the fresher biscuits near the fountain steps in The Yard and pretend they did not. Degas suspects the old world left at least one good question lying around with that exact name written on it.