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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net + + +Title: A Dog's Tale + +Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) + +Release Date: August 19, 2006 [EBook #3174] +Last Updated: November 5, 2012 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DOG'S TALE *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + +</pre> + <div class="boxnote"> + <i> <a + href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3174/old/orig3174-h/3174-h.htm"> LINK + TO THE ORIGINAL HTML FILE: This Ebook Has Been Reformatted For Better + Appearance In Mobile Viewers Such As Kindles And Others. The Original + Format, Which The Editor Believes Has A More Attractive Appearance For + Laptops And Other Computers, May Be Viewed By Clicking On This Box.</a> + </i> + </div> + <h1> + A DOG'S TALE + </h1> + <h2> + By Mark Twain + </h2> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="Cover" id="Cover"></a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> + <img alt="cover.jpg (131K)" src="images/cover.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h1> + A DOG'S TALE + </h1> + <h2> + by Mark Twain + </h2> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="Frontpiece" id="Frontpiece"></a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> + <img alt="Frontpiece.jpg (45K)" src="images/Frontpiece.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h3> + Frontpiece + </h3> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <big><b>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</b></big> + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + <a href="#Cover">1. Book Cover</a> + </p> + <p> + <a href="#Frontpiece">2. Frontpiece</a> + </p> + <p> + <a href="#p18">3. By-and-by Came My Little Puppy</a> + </p> + <p> + <a href="#p28">4. Flocked In To Hear Of My Heroism</a> + </p> + <p> + <a href="#p34">5. You Saved <b>HIS</b> Child</a> + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a href="#ch1">Chapter I.</a> + </h3> + <h3> + <a href="#ch2">Chapter II.</a> + </h3> + <h3> + <a href="#ch3">Chapter III.</a> + </h3> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h2> + <a name="ch1" id="ch1"></a>CHAPTER I. + </h2> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a + Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice + distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing. + My mother had a fondness for such; she liked to say them, and see other + dogs look surprised and envious, as wondering how she got so much + education. But, indeed, it was not real education; 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 Sunday-school and listening + there; and whenever she heard a large word she said it over to herself + many times, and so was able to keep it until there was a dogmatic + gathering in the neighborhood, then she would get it 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 nearly 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 thought he would catch + her; so when she told him, he was the one that looked ashamed, whereas he + had thought it was going to be she. The others were always waiting for + this, and glad of it and proud of her, for they knew what was going to + happen, because they had had experience. When she told the meaning of a + big word they were all so taken up with admiration that it never occurred + to any dog to doubt if it was the right one; and that was natural, + because, for one thing, she answered up so promptly that it seemed like a + dictionary speaking, and for another thing, where could they find out + whether it was right or not? for she was the only cultivated dog there + was. By and by, when I was older, she brought home the word + Unintellectual, one time, and worked it pretty hard all the week at + different gatherings, making much unhappiness and despondency; and it was + at this time that I noticed that during that week she was asked for the + meaning at eight different assemblages, and flashed out a fresh definition + every time, which showed me that she had more presence of mind than + culture, though I said nothing, of course. She had one word which she + always kept on hand, and ready, like a life-preserver, a kind of emergency + word to strap on when she was likely to get washed overboard in a sudden + way—that was the word Synonymous. When she happened to fetch out a + long word 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; so when he'd hail and ask her to cash in, I (the only dog on the + inside of her game) could see her canvas flicker a moment—but only + just a moment—then it would belly out taut and full, and she would + say, as calm as a summer's day, "It's synonymous with supererogation," or + some godless long reptile of a word like that, and go placidly about 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. + </p> + <p> + And it was the same with phrases. She would drag home a whole phrase, if + it 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 it meant, and knew those dogs + hadn't wit enough to catch her, anyway. Yes, she was a daisy! She got so + she wasn't afraid of anything, she had such confidence in the ignorance of + those creatures. She even brought anecdotes that she had heard the family + and the dinner-guests laugh and shout over; and as a rule she got the nub + of one chestnut hitched onto another chestnut, where, of course, 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 most insane way, while I + could see that she was wondering to herself why it didn't seem as funny as + it did when she first heard it. But no harm was done; the others rolled + and barked too, privately ashamed of themselves for not seeing the point, + and never suspecting that the fault was not with them and there wasn't any + to see. + </p> + <p> + You can see by these things that she was of a rather vain and frivolous + character; still, she had virtues, and enough to make up, I think. She had + a kind heart and gentle ways, and never harbored resentments for injuries + done her, but put them easily out of her mind and forgot them; and she + taught her children her kindly way, and from her we learned also to be + brave and prompt in time of danger, and not to run away, but 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 by words only, but by example, and that is the best way and the surest + and the most lasting. Why, the brave things she did, the splendid things! + she was just a soldier; and so modest about it—well, you couldn't + help admiring her, and you couldn't help imitating her; not even a King + Charles spaniel could remain entirely despicable in her society. So, as + you see, there was more to her than her education.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h2> + <a name="ch2" id="ch2"></a>CHAPTER II. + </h2> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + When I was well grown, at last, I was sold and taken away, and I never saw + her again. She was broken-hearted, 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, take + our life as we might find it, live it for the best good of others, and + never mind about the results; they were not our affair. She said men who + did like this would have a noble and beautiful reward by and by in another + world, and although we animals would not go there, to do well and right + without reward would give to our brief lives a worthiness and dignity + which in itself would be a reward. She had gathered these things from time + to time when she had gone to the Sunday-school with the children, and had + laid them up in her memory more carefully than she had done with those + other words and phrases; and she had studied them deeply, for her good and + ours. One may see by this that she had a wise and thoughtful head, for all + there was so much lightness and vanity in it. + </p> + <p> + So we said our farewells, and looked our last upon each other through our + tears; and the last thing she said—keeping it for the last to make + me remember it the better, I think—was, "In memory of me, when there + is a time of danger to another do not think of yourself, think of your + mother, and do as she would do." + </p> + <p> + Do you think I could forget that? No.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h2> + <a name="ch3" id="ch3"></a>CHAPTER III. + </h2> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + It was such a charming home!—my new one; a fine great house, with + pictures, and delicate decorations, and rich furniture, and no gloom + anywhere, but all the wilderness of dainty 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 not give + me a new name, but called me by my old one 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. + </p> + <p> + Mrs. Gray was thirty, and so sweet and so lovely, you cannot imagine it; + and Sadie was ten, and just like her mother, just a darling slender little + copy of her, with auburn tails down her back, and short frocks; and the + baby was a year old, and plump and dimpled, and fond of me, and never + could get enough of hauling on my tail, and hugging me, and laughing out + its innocent happiness; and Mr. Gray was thirty-eight, and tall and + slender and handsome, a little bald in front, 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 means, but my mother would know how to use it and get effects. + She would know how to depress a rat-terrier with it and make a lap-dog + look sorry he came. But that is not the best one; the best one was + Laboratory. My mother could organize a Trust on that one that would skin + the tax-collars off the whole herd. The laboratory was not a book, or a + picture, or a place to wash your hands in, as the college president's dog + said—no, that is the lavatory; the laboratory is quite different, + and is filled with jars, and bottles, and electrics, and wires, and + strange machines; and every week other scientists came there 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 around and + listened, and tried to learn, for the sake of my mother, and in loving + memory of her, although it was a pain to me, as realizing what she was + losing out of her life and I gaining nothing at all; for try as I might, I + was never able to make anything out of it at all. + </p> + <p> + Other times I lay on the floor in the mistress's work-room and slept, she + gently using me for a foot-stool, knowing it pleased me, for it was a + caress; other times I spent an hour in the nursery, and got well tousled + and made happy; other times I watched by the crib there, when the baby was + asleep and the nurse out for a few minutes on the baby's affairs; other + times I romped and raced through the grounds and the garden with Sadie + till we were tired out, then slumbered on the grass in the shade of a tree + while she read her book; other times I went visiting among the neighbor + dogs—for there were some most pleasant ones not far away, and one + very handsome and courteous and graceful one, a curly-haired Irish setter + by the name of Robin Adair, who was a Presbyterian like me, and belonged + to the Scotch minister. + </p> + <p> + The servants in our house were all kind to me and were fond of me, and so, + as you see, mine was a pleasant life. There could not be a happier 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 do well and right, and honor my + mother's memory and her teachings, and earn the happiness that had come to + me, as best I could. + </p> + <p> + By and by came my little puppy, and then my cup was full, my happiness was + perfect. It was the dearest little waddling thing, and so smooth and soft + and velvety, and had such cunning little awkward paws, and such + affectionate eyes, and such a sweet and innocent face; and it made me so + proud to see how the children and their mother adored it, and fondled it, + and exclaimed over every little wonderful thing it did. It did seem to me + that life was just too lovely to—<br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + <a name="p18" id="p18"></a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> + <img alt="p18.jpg (30K)" src="images/p18.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + Then came the winter. One 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 you can see + through. The nurse was out, and we two sleepers were alone. A spark from + the wood-fire was shot out, and it lit on the slope of the tent. I suppose + a quiet interval followed, then a scream from the baby awoke me, and there + was that tent flaming up toward the ceiling! Before I could think, I + sprang to the floor in my fright, and in a second was half-way to the + door; but in the next half-second my mother's farewell was sounding in my + ears, and I was back on the bed again. I reached my head through the + flames and dragged the baby out by the waist-band, and tugged it along, + and we fell to the floor together in a cloud of smoke; 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 away, all excited + and happy and proud, when the master's voice shouted: + </p> + <p> + "Begone you cursed beast!" and I jumped to save myself; but he was + furiously quick, and chased me up, striking 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 blow, but never descended, for the + nurse's voice rang wildly out, "The nursery's on fire!" and the master + rushed away in that direction, and my other bones were saved. + </p> + <p> + The pain was cruel, but, no matter, I must not lose any time; he might + come back at any moment; so I limped on three legs to the other end of the + hall, where there was a dark little stairway leading up into a garret + where old boxes and such things were kept, as I had heard say, and where + people seldom went. I managed to climb up there, then I searched my way + through the dark among the piles of things, and hid in the secretest place + I could find. It was foolish to be afraid there, yet still I was; so + afraid that I held in and hardly even whimpered, though it would have been + such a comfort to whimper, because that eases the pain, you know. But I + could lick my leg, and that did some good. + </p> + <p> + For half an hour there was a commotion downstairs, and shoutings, and + rushing footsteps, and then there was quiet again. Quiet for some minutes, + and that was grateful to my spirit, for then my fears began to go down; + and fears are worse than pains—oh, much worse. Then came a sound + that froze me. They were calling me—calling me by name—hunting + for me! + </p> + <p> + It was muffled by distance, but that could not take the terror out of it, + and it was the most dreadful sound to me that I had ever 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; then outside, and + farther and farther away—then back, and all about the house again, + and I thought it would never, never stop. But at last it did, hours and + hours after the vague twilight of the garret had long ago been blotted out + by black darkness. + </p> + <p> + Then in that blessed stillness my terrors fell little by little away, and + I was at peace and slept. It was a good rest I had, but I woke before the + twilight had come again. I was feeling fairly comfortable, and I could + think out a plan now. I made a very good one; which was, to creep down, + all the way down the back stairs, and hide behind 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 day, and start on my + journey when night came; my journey to—well, anywhere where they + would not know me and betray me to the master. I was feeling almost + cheerful now; then suddenly I thought: Why, what would life be without my + puppy! + </p> + <p> + That was despair. There 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 it. Then—well, + then the calling began again! All my sorrows came back. I said to myself, + the master will never forgive. I did not know what I had done to make him + so bitter and so unforgiving, yet I judged it was something a dog could + not understand, but which was clear to a man and dreadful. + </p> + <p> + They called and called—days and nights, it 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 way you sleep a great deal, and I + did. Once I woke in an awful fright—it seemed to me that the calling + was right there in the garret! And so it was: it was Sadie's voice, and + she was crying; my name was falling from her lips all broken, poor thing, + and I could not believe my ears for the joy of it when I heard her say: + </p> + <p> + "Come back to us—oh, come back to us, and forgive—it is all so + sad without our—" + </p> + <p> + I broke in with SUCH a grateful little yelp, and the next moment Sadie was + plunging and stumbling through the darkness and the lumber and shouting + for the family to hear, "She's found, she's found!"<br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + <a name="p28" id="p28"></a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> + <img alt="p28.jpg (44K)" src="images/p28.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + The days that followed—well, they were wonderful. The mother 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 be satisfied with anything but 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 it means + agriculture. I remember my mother pulling it on a kennel once, and + explaining it in that way, but didn't say what agriculture was, except + that it was synonymous with intramural incandescence; and a dozen times a + day Mrs. Gray and Sadie would tell the tale to new-comers, and say I + risked my life to save 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 about me, + and you could see the pride in the eyes of Sadie and her mother; and when + the people wanted to know what made me limp, they looked ashamed and + changed the subject, and sometimes when people hunted them this way and + that way with questions about it, it looked to me as if they were going to + cry. + </p> + <p> + And this was not all the glory; no, the master's friends came, a whole + twenty of the most distinguished people, and had me in the laboratory, and + discussed me as 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 master said, with vehemence, "It's far above + instinct; it's REASON, and many a man, privileged to be saved and go with + you and me to a better world by right of its possession, has less of it + that this poor silly quadruped that's foreordained to perish;" and then he + laughed, and said: "Why, look at me—I'm a sarcasm! bless you, with + all my grand intelligence, the only thing I inferred was that the dog had + gone mad and was destroying the child, whereas but for the beast's + intelligence—it's REASON, I tell you!—the child would have + perished!" + </p> + <p> + They disputed and disputed, and I was the very center of subject of it + all, and I wished my mother could know that this grand honor had come to + me; it would have made her proud. + </p> + <p> + Then they discussed optics, as they called it, and whether a certain + injury to the brain would produce blindness or not, but they could not + agree about it, and said they must test it by experiment by and by; and + next they discussed plants, and that interested me, because 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 up there, and it was a + wonder how that could happen; but it did, and I wished I could talk—I + would have told those people about it and shown then how much I knew, and + been all alive with the subject; but I didn't care for the optics; it was + dull, and when they came back to it again it bored me, and I went to + sleep. + </p> + <p> + Pretty soon it was spring, and sunny and pleasant and lovely, and the + sweet mother and the children patted me and the puppy good-by, and went + away on a journey and a visit to their kin, and the master wasn't any + company for us, but we played together and had good times, and the + servants were kind and friendly, so we got along quite happily and counted + the days and waited for the family. + </p> + <p> + And one day those men came again, and said, now for the test, and they + took the puppy to the laboratory, and I limped three-leggedly along, too, + feeling proud, for any attention shown to the puppy was a pleasure to me, + of course. They discussed and experimented, and then suddenly the puppy + shrieked, and they set him on the floor, and he went staggering around, + with his head all bloody, and the master clapped his hands and shouted: + </p> + <p> + "There, I've won—confess it! He's as blind as a bat!" + </p> + <p> + And they all said: + </p> + <p> + "It's so—you've proved your theory, and suffering humanity owes you + a great debt from henceforth," and they crowded around him, and wrung his + hand cordially and thankfully, and praised him. + </p> + <p> + But I hardly saw or heard these things, for I ran at once to my little + darling, and snuggled close to it where it lay, and licked the blood, and + it put its head against mine, whimpering softly, and I knew in my heart it + was a comfort to it in its pain and trouble to feel its mother's touch, + though it could not see me. Then it dropped down, presently, and its + little velvet nose rested upon the floor, and it was still, and did not + move any more. + </p> + <p> + Soon the master stopped discussing a moment, and rang in the footman, and + said, "Bury it in the far corner of the garden," and then went on with the + discussion, and I trotted after the footman, very happy and grateful, for + I knew the puppy was out of its pain 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 great + elm, and there the footman dug a hole, and I saw he was going to plant the + puppy, and I was glad, because it would grow and come up a fine handsome + dog, like Robin Adair, and be a beautiful surprise for the family when + they came home; so I tried to help him dig, but my lame leg was no good, + being stiff, you 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 little doggie, you saved + HIS child!"<br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + <a name="p34" id="p34"></a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> + <img alt="p34.jpg (48K)" src="images/p34.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + I have watched two whole weeks, and he doesn't come up! This last week a + fright has been stealing upon me. I think there is something terrible + about this. I do not know what it is, but the fear makes me sick, and I + cannot eat, though the servants bring me the best of food; and they pet me + so, and even come in the night, and cry, and say, "Poor doggie—do + give it up and come home; don't break our hearts!" and all this terrifies + me the more, and makes me sure something has happened. And I am so weak; + since yesterday I cannot stand on my feet anymore. And within this hour + the servants, looking toward the sun where it was sinking out of sight and + the night chill coming on, said things I could not understand, but they + carried something cold to my heart. + </p> + <p> + "Those poor creatures! They do not suspect. They will come home in the + morning, and eagerly ask for the little doggie that did the brave deed, + and who of us will be strong enough to say the truth to them: 'The humble + little friend is gone where go the beasts that perish.'"<br /> <br /> <br /> + <br /> + </p> + <hr /> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's A Dog's Tale, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DOG'S TALE *** + +***** This file should be named 3174-h.htm or 3174-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.net/3/1/7/3174/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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