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A Domestic dog'Due south TALE
Past Mark Twain
A Domestic dog'Due south TALE
by Mark Twain
Frontpiece
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Volume Embrace
2. Frontpiece
three. By-and-by Came My Little Puppy
four. Flocked In To Hear Of My Heroism
v. You Saved HIS Kid
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Affiliate I.
My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, merely I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I practise not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are simply fine large words significant nothing. My mother had a fondness for such; she liked to say them, and come across other dogs look surprised and envious, equally wondering how she got so much education. But, indeed, it was not existent teaching; it was only show: she got the words by listening in the dining-room and drawing-room when there was company, and by going with the children to Lord's day-school and listening there; and whenever she heard a large word she said it over to herself many times, and and then was able to continue it until there was a dogmatic gathering in the neighborhood, and so she would get information technology off, and surprise and distress them all, from pocket-pup to mastiff, which rewarded her for all her trouble. If there was a stranger he was about sure to be suspicious, and when he got his breath again he would ask her what it meant. And she always told him. He was never expecting this but idea he would grab her; and then when she told him, he was the one that looked ashamed, whereas he had thought it was going to exist she. The others were always waiting for this, and glad of it and proud of her, for they knew what was going to happen, considering they had had feel. When she told the meaning of a big give-and-take they were all and then taken up with admiration that it never occurred to any dog to doubt if information technology was the correct one; and that was natural, because, for 1 thing, she answered up so promptly that it seemed like a dictionary speaking, and for another matter, where could they find out whether it was right or not? for she was the only cultivated canis familiaris there was. By and by, when I was older, she brought home the word Unintellectual, ane fourth dimension, and worked it pretty hard all the calendar week at unlike gatherings, making much unhappiness and despondency; and information technology was at this time that I noticed that during that week she was asked for the meaning at eight dissimilar assemblages, and flashed out a fresh definition every time, which showed me that she had more presence of heed than civilisation, though I said nothing, of class. She had one word which she ever kept on hand, and gear up, like a life-preserver, a kind of emergency word to strap on when she was likely to go washed overboard in a sudden way—that was the word Synonymous. When she happened to fetch out a long give-and-take which had had its day weeks before and its prepared meanings gone to her dump-pile, if there was a stranger there of course it knocked him groggy for a couple of minutes, then he would come to, and by that time she would be away down wind on another tack, and not expecting anything; and so when he'd hail and ask her to cash in, I (the but dog on the inside of her game) could run across her canvas flicker a moment—but only merely a moment—then it would belly out taut and full, and she would say, as calm as a summer's twenty-four hour period, "Information technology's synonymous with supererogation," or some godless long reptile of a give-and-take like that, and go placidly nearly and skim away on the next tack, perfectly comfortable, you know, and leave that stranger looking profane and embarrassed, and the initiated slatting the floor with their tails in unison and their faces transfigured with a holy joy.
And it was the same with phrases. She would elevate home a whole phrase, if information technology had a grand sound, and play it six nights and two matinees, and explain it a new way every time—which she had to, for all she cared for was the phrase; she wasn't interested in what information technology meant, and knew those dogs hadn't wit plenty to catch her, anyway. Yes, she was a daisy! She got and then she wasn't afraid of annihilation, she had such conviction in the ignorance of those creatures. She even brought anecdotes that she had heard the family unit and the dinner-guests express joy and shout over; and equally a dominion she got the nub of ane chestnut hitched onto another chestnut, where, of form, it didn't fit and hadn't any point; and when she delivered the nub she fell over and rolled on the floor and laughed and barked in the virtually insane way, while I could see that she was wondering to herself why it didn't seem as funny every bit it did when she first heard it. But no harm was done; the others rolled and barked besides, privately aback of themselves for not seeing the point, and never suspecting that the mistake was non with them and in that location wasn't any to see.
You tin can see past these things that she was of a rather vain and frivolous character; notwithstanding, she had virtues, and enough to brand up, I think. She had a kind heart and gentle means, and never harbored resentments for injuries washed her, merely put them easily out of her mind and forgot them; and she taught her children her kindly way, and from her we learned as well to be brave and prompt in time of danger, and non to run away, simply face the peril that threatened friend or stranger, and help him the best we could without stopping to think what the cost might be to us. And she taught us not past words just, but by example, and that is the best way and the surest and the almost lasting. Why, the brave things she did, the splendid things! she was merely a soldier; and so minor almost it—well, you couldn't help admiring her, and yous couldn't help imitating her; not fifty-fifty a King Charles spaniel could remain entirely despicable in her society. So, as you see, there was more than to her than her instruction.
Affiliate Ii.
When I was well grown, at terminal, I was sold and taken abroad, and I never saw her once more. She was anxious, and so was I, and we cried; but she comforted me as well as she could, and said we were sent into this world for a wise and good purpose, and must do our duties without repining, accept our life as we might notice it, live it for the all-time adept of others, and never heed virtually the results; they were not our matter. She said men who did like this would have a noble and beautiful reward past and by in some other earth, and although nosotros animals would non go in that location, to do well and right without advantage would requite to our cursory lives a worthiness and dignity which in itself would exist a advantage. She had gathered these things from time to time when she had gone to the Lord's day-school with the children, and had laid them upwardly in her memory more carefully than she had done with those other words and phrases; and she had studied them deeply, for her practiced and ours. One may see by this that she had a wise and thoughtful head, for all there was and so much lightness and vanity in it.
And so nosotros said our farewells, and looked our last upon each other through our tears; and the last affair she said—keeping it for the last to brand me remember it the better, I retrieve—was, "In memory of me, when in that location is a time of danger to another do non think of yourself, call up of your mother, and do as she would do."
Do you think I could forget that? No.
Affiliate Three.
It was such a charming home!—my new 1; a fine groovy firm, with pictures, and delicate decorations, and rich furniture, and no gloom anywhere, but all the wilderness of overnice colors lit up with flooding sunshine; and the spacious grounds around it, and the great garden—oh, greensward, and noble trees, and flowers, no end! And I was the same as a member of the family; and they loved me, and petted me, and did non give me a new name, but chosen me by my old 1 that was dear to me because my mother had given it me—Aileen Mavourneen. She got it out of a song; and the Grays knew that song, and said it was a beautiful name.
Mrs. Greyness was 30, and then sweet and so lovely, yous cannot imagine it; and Sadie was x, and just like her mother, just a darling slender little re-create of her, with auburn tails down her back, and short frocks; and the baby was a year sometime, and plump and dimpled, and fond of me, and never could go enough of hauling on my tail, and hugging me, and laughing out its innocent happiness; and Mr. Gray was thirty-8, and tall and slender and handsome, a piffling bald in front end, alert, quick in his movements, business-like, prompt, decided, unsentimental, and with that kind of trim-chiseled face that just seems to glint and sparkle with frosty intellectuality! He was a renowned scientist. I do not know what the word ways, but my mother would know how to use it and become effects. She would know how to depress a rat-terrier with information technology and make a lap-dog look sorry he came. But that is not the best 1; the best one was Laboratory. My mother could organize a Trust on that one that would skin the revenue enhancement-collars off the whole herd. The laboratory was not a book, or a film, or a place to launder your hands in, as the college president'south canis familiaris said—no, that is the lavatory; the laboratory is quite dissimilar, and is filled with jars, and bottles, and electrics, and wires, and strange machines; and every calendar week other scientists came at that place and sat in the place, and used the machines, and discussed, and made what they called experiments and discoveries; and often I came, too, and stood effectually and listened, and tried to learn, for the sake of my mother, and in loving retention of her, although it was a hurting to me, every bit realizing what she was losing out of her life and I gaining null at all; for try as I might, I was never able to brand anything out of information technology at all.
Other times I lay on the floor in the mistress's piece of work-room and slept, she gently using me for a foot-stool, knowing it pleased me, for information technology was a caress; other times I spent an hr in the nursery, and got well tousled and made happy; other times I watched by the crib there, when the baby was comatose and the nurse out for a few minutes on the baby's diplomacy; other times I romped and raced through the grounds and the garden with Sadie till nosotros were tired out, then slumbered on the grass in the shade of a tree while she read her book; other times I went visiting amid the neighbor dogs—for there were some nigh pleasant ones not far away, and one very handsome and courteous and graceful 1, a curly-haired Irish setter past the name of Robin Adair, who was a Presbyterian like me, and belonged to the Scotch minister.
The servants in our house were all kind to me and were addicted of me, and so, as you see, mine was a pleasant life. There could not exist a happier domestic dog that I was, nor a gratefuller one. I will say this for myself, for it is only the truth: I tried in all ways to practise well and correct, and honor my mother'due south memory and her teachings, and earn the happiness that had come up to me, as all-time I could.
By and past came my piffling puppy, so my cup was full, my happiness was perfect. It was the dearest little waddling thing, then shine and soft and velvety, and had such cunning picayune bad-mannered paws, and such affectionate eyes, and such a sweet and innocent confront; and it fabricated me then proud to run into how the children and their female parent adored it, and fondled it, and exclaimed over every little wonderful matter information technology did. It did seem to me that life was just besides lovely to—
Then came the winter. 1 day I was standing a watch in the nursery. That is to say, I was asleep on the bed. The baby was asleep in the crib, which was alongside the bed, on the side next the fireplace. It was the kind of crib that has a lofty tent over it made of gauzy stuff that yous can see through. The nurse was out, and we ii sleepers were solitary. A spark from the wood-fire was shot out, and information technology lit on the gradient of the tent. I suppose a quiet interval followed, then a scream from the baby awoke me, and there was that tent flaming upwards toward the ceiling! Earlier I could think, I sprang to the floor in my fright, and in a second was half-style to the door; merely in the next one-half-second my mother's farewell was sounding in my ears, and I was back on the bed again. I reached my caput through the flames and dragged the infant out by the waist-ring, and tugged it along, and we fell to the flooring together in a cloud of fume; I snatched a new hold, and dragged the screaming little creature along and out at the door and around the bend of the hall, and was still tugging abroad, all excited and happy and proud, when the master'southward vocalization shouted:
"Begone you cursed brute!" and I jumped to salve myself; but he was furiously quick, and chased me up, hitting furiously at me with his cane, I dodging this way and that, in terror, and at last a strong blow fell upon my left foreleg, which made me shriek and fall, for the moment, helpless; the cane went up for another accident, merely never descended, for the nurse's voice rang wildly out, "The nursery'due south on burn down!" and the master rushed away in that direction, and my other bones were saved.
The pain was barbarous, but, no affair, I must not lose any fourth dimension; he might come up dorsum at any moment; so I limped on 3 legs to the other terminate of the hall, where there was a dark little stairway leading up into a garret where old boxes and such things were kept, every bit I had heard say, and where people seldom went. I managed to climb upward at that place, and then I searched my way through the dark amid the piles of things, and hid in the secretest identify I could discover. It was foolish to exist afraid there, yet still I was; and so agape that I held in and hardly even whimpered, though information technology would have been such a comfort to whimper, considering that eases the pain, y'all know. Only I could lick my leg, and that did some good.
For one-half an hr there was a commotion downstairs, and shoutings, and rushing footsteps, and then there was serenity again. Quiet for some minutes, and that was grateful to my spirit, for then my fears began to go downwardly; and fears are worse than pains—oh, much worse. Then came a audio that froze me. They were calling me—calling me by proper noun—hunting for me!
It was muffled by distance, just that could not take the terror out of it, and information technology was the most dreadful sound to me that I had always heard. It went all about, everywhere, down there: along the halls, through all the rooms, in both stories, and in the basement and the cellar; and then outside, and farther and further away—and then back, and all nigh the firm once more, and I thought information technology would never, never stop. Only at terminal information technology did, hours and hours later the vague twilight of the garret had long ago been blotted out by blackness darkness.
Then in that blest stillness my terrors savage little by niggling away, and I was at peace and slept. It was a good rest I had, only I woke before the twilight had come once again. I was feeling adequately comfortable, and I could call up out a plan now. I made a very expert one; which was, to pitter-patter downward, all the way downward the back stairs, and hide backside the cellar door, and slip out and escape when the iceman came at dawn, while he was inside filling the refrigerator; then I would hide all mean solar day, and start on my journey when night came; my journey to—well, anywhere where they would non know me and beguile me to the master. I was feeling almost cheerful now; then suddenly I thought: Why, what would life be without my puppy!
That was despair. In that location was no plan for me; I saw that; I must stay where I was; stay, and wait, and take what might come—it was not my affair; that was what life is—my mother had said information technology. Then—well, so the calling began once again! All my sorrows came back. I said to myself, the master will never forgive. I did not know what I had washed to brand him and then bitter and and then unforgiving, yet I judged information technology was something a canis familiaris could not understand, simply which was clear to a man and dreadful.
They called and called—days and nights, information technology seemed to me. So long that the hunger and thirst near drove me mad, and I recognized that I was getting very weak. When you are this fashion y'all slumber a great deal, and I did. Once I woke in an atrocious fear—it seemed to me that the calling was right there in the garret! And then it was: it was Sadie'south vocalization, and she was crying; my name was falling from her lips all cleaved, poor thing, and I could non believe my ears for the joy of it when I heard her say:
"Come back to us—oh, come dorsum to usa, and forgive—it is all so lamentable without our—"
I bankrupt in with SUCH a grateful little yelp, and the adjacent moment Sadie was plunging and stumbling through the darkness and the lumber and shouting for the family to hear, "She'south establish, she's institute!"
The days that followed—well, they were wonderful. The female parent and Sadie and the servants—why, they just seemed to worship me. They couldn't seem to make me a bed that was fine enough; and as for food, they couldn't exist satisfied with anything only game and delicacies that were out of season; and every day the friends and neighbors flocked in to hear about my heroism—that was the name they called it by, and information technology ways agriculture. I remember my female parent pulling it on a kennel once, and explaining it in that fashion, but didn't say what agriculture was, except that information technology was synonymous with intramural incandescence; and a dozen times a day Mrs. Grey and Sadie would tell the tale to new-comers, and say I risked my life to salvage the baby's, and both of us had burns to prove it, and then the company would pass me around and pet me and exclaim almost me, and you lot could see the pride in the eyes of Sadie and her female parent; and when the people wanted to know what made me limp, they looked aback and changed the subject, and sometimes when people hunted them this mode and that way with questions about it, it looked to me equally if they were going to weep.
And this was not all the glory; no, the chief'southward friends came, a whole twenty of the near distinguished people, and had me in the laboratory, and discussed me every bit if I was a kind of discovery; and some of them said it was wonderful in a dumb beast, the finest exhibition of instinct they could call to mind; but the main said, with vehemence, "It's far above instinct; it's REASON, and many a man, privileged to be saved and go with y'all and me to a meliorate world past right of its possession, has less of information technology that this poor silly quadruped that's foreordained to perish;" and then he laughed, and said: "Why, look at me—I'thou a sarcasm! bless yous, with all my grand intelligence, the only thing I inferred was that the domestic dog had gone mad and was destroying the child, whereas but for the beast'south intelligence—information technology'south REASON, I tell you!—the child would accept perished!"
They disputed and disputed, and I was the very center of bailiwick of it all, and I wished my mother could know that this thousand honor had come to me; it would have fabricated her proud.
So they discussed optics, as they called information technology, and whether a certain injury to the brain would produce incomprehension or not, but they could not agree well-nigh it, and said they must exam it by experiment by and by; and next they discussed plants, and that interested me, considering in the summer Sadie and I had planted seeds—I helped her dig the holes, you know—and after days and days a little shrub or a flower came upward there, and it was a wonder how that could happen; merely it did, and I wished I could talk—I would take told those people about it and shown then how much I knew, and been all alive with the discipline; only I didn't care for the optics; information technology was boring, and when they came back to it over again information technology bored me, and I went to sleep.
Pretty presently information technology was spring, and sunny and pleasant and lovely, and the sweet female parent and the children patted me and the puppy good-past, and went away on a journey and a visit to their kin, and the master wasn't whatever visitor for us, but nosotros played together and had proficient times, and the servants were kind and friendly, and then we got along quite happily and counted the days and waited for the family unit.
And 1 24-hour interval those men came again, and said, at present for the test, and they took the puppy to the laboratory, and I limped 3-leggedly along, too, feeling proud, for any attending shown to the puppy was a pleasure to me, of form. They discussed and experimented, and so suddenly the puppy shrieked, and they prepare him on the flooring, and he went staggering around, with his head all bloody, and the master clapped his hands and shouted:
"There, I've won—confess information technology! He'southward as bullheaded as a bat!"
And they all said:
"Information technology'southward so—you've proved your theory, and suffering humanity owes you a nifty debt from henceforth," and they crowded effectually him, and wrung his hand cordially and thankfully, and praised him.
But I hardly saw or heard these things, for I ran at once to my petty darling, and snuggled close to information technology where information technology lay, and licked the blood, and it put its head against mine, whimpering softly, and I knew in my middle it was a comfort to it in its pain and trouble to experience its mother's affect, though it could not run across me. And so it dropped downwardly, presently, and its little velvet nose rested upon the floor, and it was all the same, and did not move whatever more.
Soon the master stopped discussing a moment, and rang in the footman, and said, "Bury it in the far corner of the garden," and so went on with the discussion, and I trotted subsequently the footman, very happy and grateful, for I knew the puppy was out of its hurting now, because it was asleep. We went far down the garden to the farthest end, where the children and the nurse and the puppy and I used to play in the summer in the shade of a neat elm, and at that place the footman dug a hole, and I saw he was going to institute the puppy, and I was glad, because it would grow and come up a fine handsome dog, similar Robin Adair, and exist a beautiful surprise for the family when they came home; and so I tried to help him dig, but my lame leg was no skillful, being strong, y'all know, and you have to have two, or it is no use. When the footman had finished and covered little Robin up, he patted my head, and there were tears in his eyes, and he said: "Poor picayune doggie, you saved HIS child!"
I have watched two whole weeks, and he doesn't come up! This concluding week a fright has been stealing upon me. I call back in that location is something terrible about this. I do not know what it is, only the fright makes me sick, and I cannot eat, though the servants bring me the all-time of food; and they pet me so, and fifty-fifty come in the night, and cry, and say, "Poor doggie—exercise give it up and come home; don't suspension our hearts!" and all this terrifies me the more, and makes me certain something has happened. And I am and then weak; since yesterday I cannot stand on my feet anymore. And within this hr the servants, looking toward the sun where it was sinking out of sight and the dark chill coming on, said things I could not understand, but they carried something cold to my center.
"Those poor creatures! They do not doubtable. They will come dwelling house in the morning, and eagerly ask for the lilliputian doggie that did the brave deed, and who of usa volition exist strong plenty to say the truth to them: 'The humble little friend is gone where go the beasts that perish.'"
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