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+Title: Cat and Dog
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+CAT AND DOG;
+
+Or,
+
+Memoirs of Puss and the Captain.
+
+A Story founded on Fact.
+
+By the Author of
+
+"The Doll and Her Friends," "Letters from Madras,"
+"Historical Acting Charades," Etc.
+
+Fifth Edition.
+
+With Illustrations by Harrison Weir.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN AND THE LOOKING-GLASS. Page 9]
+
+
+
+London:
+Griffith and Farran,
+Late Grant and Griffith, Successors to Newbery and Harris,
+Corner of St. Paul's Churchyard.
+MDCCCLVIII.
+
+
+
+
+NOTE.
+
+The Author begs to assure her young readers that the principal
+circumstances on which this little story is founded are true. The
+friendship between the two animals, the dog's journey home, and return
+in company with his friend, are facts which occurred within her own
+knowledge.
+
+
+  LONDON:
+  SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS,
+  CHANDOS STREET.
+
+
+
+
+CAT AND DOG;
+
+OR,
+
+PUSS AND THE CAPTAIN.
+
+
+I am going to relate the history of a pleasant and prosperous life; for
+though a few misfortunes may have befallen me, my pleasures have far
+exceeded them, and especially I have been treated with such constant
+cordiality and kindness as would not fail to ensure the happiness of man
+or beast. But though I have no reason to complain of my destiny, it is a
+remarkable fact, that my principal happiness has been produced by
+conforming myself to unfavourable circumstances, and reconciling myself
+to an unnatural fate.
+
+Nature herself did well by me. I am a fine setter, of a size that a
+Newfoundland dog could not despise, and a beauty that a Blenheim spaniel
+might envy. With a white and brown curly coat, drooping ears, bushy
+tail, a delicate pink nose, and good-natured brown eyes, active,
+strong, honest, gentle, and obedient, I have always felt a conscious
+pride and pleasure in being a thoroughly well-bred dog.
+
+My condition in life was peculiarly comfortable. I was brought up in an
+old manor-house inhabited by a gentleman and his daughter, with several
+respectable and good-natured servants. My education was conducted with
+care, and from my earliest youth I had the advantage of an introduction
+into good society. I was not, indeed, allowed to come much into the
+drawing-room, as my master said I was too large for a drawing-room dog;
+but I had the range of the lower part of the house, and constant
+admittance to his study, where I was welcome to share his fireside while
+he read the newspapers or received visitors. I took great interest in
+his friends; and by means of listening to their conversation, watching
+them from under my eyelids while they thought I was asleep, and smelling
+them carefully, I could form a sufficiently just estimate of their
+characters to regulate my own conduct towards them. Though a polite dog
+both by birth and breeding, I was too honest and independent to show the
+same respect and cordiality towards those whom I liked and those whom I
+despised; and though very grateful for the smallest favours from
+persons I esteemed, no flattery, caresses, or benefactions could induce
+me to strike up an intimacy with one who did not please me. If I had
+been able to speak, I should have expressed my opinions without
+ceremony; and it often surprised me that my master, who could say what
+he pleased, did not quarrel with people, and tell them all their faults
+openly. I thought, if I had been he, I would have had many a fight with
+intruders, to whom he was not only civil himself, but compelled me to be
+so too. I have often observed that it appears proper for human beings to
+observe a kind of respect even towards persons they dislike; a line of
+conduct which _brutes_ cannot understand.
+
+However, I was not without my own methods of showing my sentiments. If I
+felt indifferent or contemptuous towards a person entering the room, I
+merely opened one eye and yawned at him. If he attempted any
+compliments, calling me "Good Captain," "Fine Dog," and trying to pat
+me, I shook off his hand, and rising from my rug, turned once round, and
+curling my tail under me, sank down again to my repose without taking
+any further notice of him. But occasionally my master admitted visitors
+whom I considered as such highly improper acquaintances for him, that I
+could scarcely restrain my indignation. I knew I must not bite them,
+though, in my own opinion, it would have been by far the best thing to
+do; I did not dare so much as to bark at them, for my master objected
+even to that expression of feeling: but I could not resist receiving
+them with low growls; during their visit I never took my eyes off them
+for a moment, and I made a point of following them to the door, and
+seeing them safe off the premises. Others, on the contrary, I regarded
+with the highest confidence and esteem. Their visits gave almost as much
+pleasure to me as to my master, and I took pains to show my friendship
+by every means in my power; leaving the fireside to meet them, wagging
+my tail, shaking a paw with them the moment I was asked, and sitting
+with my nose resting on their lap.
+
+But I took no unwelcome liberties; for I was gifted with a particular
+power of discriminating between those who really liked me, and those who
+only tolerated me out of politeness. Upon the latter I never willingly
+intruded, though I have been sometimes obliged to submit to a
+hypocritical pat bestowed on me for the sake of my young mistress; but a
+real friend of dogs I recognised at a glance, whether lady or gentleman,
+so that I could safely place my paw in the whitest hand, or rest my
+head against the gayest dress, without fear of a repulse.
+
+The person I loved best in the world was my master; or rather, I should
+say, he was the person for whom I had the highest respect. My love was
+bestowed in at least an equal degree upon my young mistress, his
+daughter Lily, in whose every action I took a deep interest.
+
+She was a graceful, gentle little creature, whom I could have knocked
+down and trampled upon in a minute; but though my strength was so
+superior to hers, there was no one whom I was so ready to obey. A word
+or look from Lily managed me completely; and her gentle warning of "Oh,
+Captain," has often recalled me to good manners when I was on the point
+of breaking out into fury against some obnoxious person. Willing subject
+as I was, I yet looked upon myself in some manner as her guardian and
+protector, and it would have fared ill with man or beast who had
+attempted to molest her.
+
+As I mentioned before, I was not allowed to come much into the
+drawing-room; but Lily found many opportunities of noticing me. I always
+sat at the foot of the stairs to watch for her as she came down to the
+breakfast-room, when she used to pat my head and say, "How do you do,
+good Captain? Nice dog," as she passed. Then I wagged my tail, and was
+very happy. I think I should have moped half the day if I had missed
+Lily's morning greeting. After breakfast she came into the garden, and
+brought me pieces of toast, and gave me lessons in what she considered
+clever ways of eating. I should have preferred snapping at her gifts and
+bolting them down my own throat in my own way; but, to please Lily, I
+learned to sit patiently watching the most tempting buttered crust on
+the ground under my nose, when she said, "Trust, Captain!" never
+dreaming of touching it till she gave the word of command, "Now it is
+paid for;" when I ate it in a genteel and deliberate manner. Having
+achieved such a conquest over myself, I thought my education was
+complete; but Lily had further refinements in store. She made me hold
+the piece of toast on my very nose while she counted _ten_, and at the
+word _ten_ I was to toss it up in the air, and catch it in my mouth as
+it came down. I was a good while learning this trick, for I did not at
+all see the use of it. I could smell the bread distinctly as it lay on
+my nose, and why I should not eat it at once I never could understand. I
+have often peeped in at the dining-room window to see if my master and
+mistress ate their food in the same manner; but though I have sometimes
+seen them perform my first feat of sitting quietly before their plates,
+I never once saw them put their meat on their noses and catch it.
+However, it was Lily's pleasure, and that was enough for me.
+
+She also taught me to shut the door at her command. This was rather a
+noisy performance, as I could only succeed by running against the door
+with my whole weight; but it gave Lily so much satisfaction, that she
+used to open the door a dozen times a day, on purpose for me to bang it.
+
+Another favourite amusement of hers was making me look at myself in the
+glass. I grew used to this before long; but the first time that she set
+a mirror before me on the ground, I confess that I was a good deal
+astonished and puzzled. At the first glance, I took the dog in the glass
+for an enemy and rival, intruding upon my dominions, so I naturally
+prepared for a furious attack upon him. He appeared equally ready, and I
+perceived that he was quite my match. But when, after a great deal of
+barking and violence, nobody was hurt, I fancied that the looking-glass
+was the barrier which prevented our coming to close quarters, and that
+my adversary had entrenched himself behind it in the most cowardly
+manner. Determined that he should not profit by his baseness, I
+cleverly walked round behind the glass, intending to seize him and give
+him a thorough shaking; but there I found nothing! I dashed to the front
+once more; there he stood as fierce as ever. Again behind his
+battlements--nobody! till after repeated trials, I began to have a
+glimmering of the state of the case; and feeling rather ashamed of
+having been so taken in, I declined further contest, and lay down
+quietly before the mirror to contemplate my own image, and reflect upon
+my own reflection.
+
+Lily took great pains with me; but after all, hers were but minor
+accomplishments, and I was not allowed to devote my whole attention to
+mere tricks or amusements. I was not born to be a lap-dog, and it was
+necessary that I should be educated for the more important business of
+life. Under my master's careful training, my natural talents were
+developed, and my defects subdued, till I was pronounced by the best
+judges to be the cleverest setter in the country. My master himself was
+a capital sportsman, and I was as proud of him as he was of me. When I
+had become sufficiently perfect to be his companion, we used to range
+together untired "over hill, over dale, through bush, through brier," he
+doing his part and I mine, and bringing home between us such quantities
+of game as no one else could boast. This was my real business, but it
+was no less my pleasure. I entered into it thoroughly. To point at a
+bird immovably till my master's never-failing shot gave the signal for
+my running to fetch the foolish thing and lay it at his feet, was to my
+mind the greatest enjoyment and the first object in life. And if anybody
+should be inclined to despise me on that account, I would beg them to
+recollect that it was the work given me to do, and I did it well. Can
+everybody say as much? The causes or the consequences of it, I was not
+capable of understanding. As to how the birds liked it, that never
+entered my head. I thought birds were meant to be shot, and I never
+supposed there was any other use in them.
+
+The only thing that distressed me in our shooting excursions was, that
+my master would sometimes allow very indifferent sportsmen to accompany
+us. I whined, grumbled, and remonstrated with him to the best of my
+power when I heard him give an invitation to some awkward booby who
+scarcely knew how to hold his gun, but it was all in vain; my master's
+only fault was his not consulting my judgment sufficiently in the choice
+of his acquaintances, and many a bad day's sport we had in consequence.
+
+Once my patience was tired beyond what any clever dog could be expected
+to bear. A young gentleman had arrived at our house whom my master and
+mistress treated much better than I thought he deserved. At the first
+glance I penetrated into his state of mind, and should have liked to
+hear my master growl, and my mistress bark at him; instead of which they
+said they were glad to see him, and hoped he had had a pleasant journey.
+
+He immediately began a long string of complaints, blaming everything he
+mentioned. He was cold; there never was such weather for the time of
+year; he was tired; the roads were bad, the country dull, he had been
+obliged to come the last twenty miles cramped up inside a coach. Such a
+shame that the railroad did not go the whole way! He was very glad to
+get to his journey's end, but it seemed to be more for the sake of his
+own comfort than for the pleasure of seeing his friends. His troubles
+had not hurt his appetite, as I plainly perceived, for I peeped into the
+room several times during dinner to watch him, and listen to his
+conversation. It was all in the same style, some fault to be found with
+everything. Even Lily could not put him in good humour, though she
+seemed to be trying to talk about everything likely to please him. After
+the failure of various attempts to find a fortunate topic, she asked if
+he had had much shooting this season.
+
+"Plenty of it," he answered; "only so bad. My brother's dogs are
+wretched. There is no doing any thing with such brutes."
+
+Lily coloured a little, and said that she thought Rodolph's dogs
+beautiful, and that it was very unlike him to have any thing wretched
+belonging to him.
+
+"Oh," replied the other, "he is the greenest fellow in the world. He is
+always satisfied. I assure you his dogs are good for nothing. I did not
+bring down a single bird any time I went out with them."
+
+"Well," said my master, "I hope we shall be able to make amends for that
+misfortune. To-morrow you shall go out with the best dog in the
+country."
+
+I whined, for I knew he meant me; and I did not like the idea of a
+sportsman who began by finding fault with his dogs. I suspected that the
+_dogs_ were not to blame. But nobody listened to me.
+
+Next day, while Lily and I were playing in the garden, my master
+appeared at the usual time in his shooting-jacket.
+
+"Where is Craven?" he inquired of Lily; "I told him to be ready."
+
+"He is dressing again," answered she, laughing; "his boots had done
+something wrong, or his waistcoat was naughty; I forget which."
+
+"Pshaw!" exclaimed my master; "he will waste half the day with his
+nonsense. I cannot wait for him. Tell him I am gone on, and he must
+follow with John. Go back, Captain," continued he, for I was bounding
+after him in hopes of escaping my threatened companion; "go back. You
+must do your best this morning, for I suspect you will know more about
+the matter than your commander."
+
+Most reluctantly I obeyed, and stayed behind, looking wistfully after
+him as he strode away. I consoled myself with Lily's praises, which I
+almost preferred to the biscuits she bestowed upon me in equal
+profusion. After various compliments, she took a graver tone. "Now,
+Captain," she said, "listen to me."
+
+I sat upright, and looked her full in the face.
+
+"You know you are the best of dogs."
+
+I wagged my tail, for I certainly did know it. She told me so every day,
+and I believed every thing she said.
+
+"Here is another biscuit for you: catch!"
+
+I caught, and swallowed it at one gulp.
+
+"Good boy. Now that is enough; and I have something to say to you. You
+are going out shooting with Craven. He is not his brother, but that
+cannot be helped. I hope he will be good-natured to you, but I am not
+sure. Now mind that _you_ behave well, and set him a good example. Do
+your own work as well as you can, and don't growl and grumble at other
+people. And if you are angry, you must not bark, nor bite him, but take
+it patiently."
+
+What more she might have added I do not know, for her harangue was
+interrupted by old John the groom, who was, like myself, waiting for the
+gentleman in question. John's wife had been Lily's nurse, and he himself
+taught her to ride and helped her to garden, and had a sort of
+partnership with me in taking care of her; so that there was a great
+friendship between us all three. He had been listening to our
+conversation, and now observed, while he pointed towards the house with
+a knowing jerk of his head, "There are those coming, Miss Lily, who need
+your advice as much as the poor animal; and I guess it wouldn't be of
+much more use."
+
+The last words he said to himself, in an undertone, while Lily went
+forward to meet Craven, who now appeared in full costume. He was so hung
+about with extra shooting-pouches, belts, powder-flasks, and other
+things dangling from him in all directions, that I wondered he could
+move at all. Old John shook his head as he looked at him, and muttered,
+"Great cry and little wool."
+
+Lily began to explain her father's absence; but Craven did not listen
+to what she said, he seemed intent upon making her admire his numerous
+contrivances. Lily said he had plenty of tools, and that he would be
+very clever if he did work to match, but that in her opinion such
+variety was rather puzzling.
+
+"Of course, girls know nothing of field-sports," he answered; "I can't
+expect you to understand the merits of these things."
+
+"Oh, no, to be sure," answered Lily, good-humouredly; "I dare say they
+are all very clever; only papa sometimes tells _me_ that one wants but
+few tools if one knows one's work; but perhaps he only means girls'
+work. Very likely you are right about yours."
+
+Old John now came forward very respectfully, but with a particular
+twinkle in his eye which I understood. Said he, "As you are encumbered
+with so many traps, master, maybe I had best take your gun. You can't
+carry every thing useful and not useful."
+
+Craven handed him the gun without any objection, and we set off. From
+the moment that I saw him relinquish his gun, his real weapon, for the
+sake of all those unnecessary adjuncts, I gave up any lingering hope of
+him, and followed in very low spirits. Once in the fields, the prospect
+of rejoining my master a little revived me; but even in this I was
+disappointed: he had gone over the open country, while Craven preferred
+remaining in the plantations. Still, old John's company was a comfort to
+me, and when the first bird was descried, I made a capital set at it.
+Craven took back his gun; but while he was looking in the wrong pocket
+for the right shot, John brought down the partridge.
+
+"A fine bird," said Craven. "If it had not been for this awkward button,
+I should have had him."
+
+"You'll soon have another opportunity," said John; "suppose you get
+loaded first."
+
+Craven loaded; but something else was wrong about his contrivances, and
+before he was ready, John had bagged the pheasant. At last Craven got a
+shot, and missed it. He said it was John's fault for standing in the way
+of his seeing me.
+
+"Well, I shan't be in the way any longer," said John; "for I was to go
+back to my work if I was not wanted, after having shown you the
+plantations. So good morning, master, and good luck next time."
+
+The next time, and the next, and the next, no better success. Bird after
+bird rose, and flew away before our noses, as if in sheer ridicule of
+such idle popping, till I felt myself degraded in the eyes of the very
+partridges. Half the morning we passed in this way, wasting time and
+temper, powder and shot; and the birds, as I well knew, despising us for
+missing them, till my patience was quite exhausted, and I longed to go
+home. Still, I remembered Lily's parting injunctions, and resolved to be
+game to the last myself, even if we were to have no other game that day.
+I also reflected that no one was born with a gun in his hand, and that
+Craven might not have had opportunity of acquiring dexterity; that there
+was a beginning to everything, and that it was the business of the more
+experienced to help the ignorant. So I continued to be as useful to him
+as I possibly could.
+
+Suddenly, after a particularly provoking miss, Craven exclaimed: "It is
+all your fault, you stupid dog; you never turn the bird out where one
+expects it. If you knew your business, I could have bagged dozens."
+
+Highly affronted, I now felt that I had borne enough, and that it was
+hopeless to attempt being of use to a creature as unjust and ungrateful
+as he was ignorant and conceited. I, therefore, turned round, and in a
+quiet but dignified and decided manner took my way towards home. Craven
+called, whistled, shouted, but I took no notice. I was too much
+disgusted to have anything more to do with him; and I never turned my
+head nor slackened my pace till I arrived at my own kennel, when I
+curled myself round in my straw, and brooded over my wrongs till I went
+to sleep.
+
+I kept rather out of sight during the rest of the day, for more reasons
+than one. An inferior creature cannot at once rise superior to an
+affront, and clear it off his mind like a man; we are slaves to our
+impressions, and till they are forgotten we cannot help acting upon
+them; and I am afraid I rather took pleasure in nursing my wrath. Then I
+did not wish to see Craven; and perhaps I might feel a little ashamed of
+myself, and not quite sure what my master and mistress might think of my
+running away. But I happened to hear John chuckling over the affair, and
+saying that my master had been very much amused with the story; so I
+regained confidence enough next morning to present myself once more,
+though in rather a shy way, to Lily at the foot of the stairs.
+
+"Oh, come in to breakfast, you capital dog," exclaimed she; so I
+followed her, delighted to find that I was in the same favour as ever.
+But, alas! how little did I foresee the misfortune that was coming upon
+me! I had better have stayed in my kennel and fancied the whole world
+affronted with me for a few days longer.
+
+Craven and I met on the rug, _my_ rug, as I considered it; for it was
+one of my principal pleasures to sit on that rug with my feet on the
+fender, warming my nose. I sometimes toasted myself all over, till my
+coat was so hot that Lily squeaked when she touched me. She would have
+barked, I suppose, if she had known how. Now Craven stood in my place,
+with one of his hind paws on my fender. He looked scornfully at me, and
+I returned his glance with one of equal contempt, though I longed to
+snap at his shining heel, and teach him sense and manners.
+
+But Lily, who never was angry with any body, did not perceive how much
+we disliked each other, and exclaimed in her innocent way, "Craven, here
+is Captain come to make friends with you, and to beg pardon for
+deserting you yesterday. Shake a paw, Captain."
+
+Shaking a paw with Craven was a thing I would not do; and my master, a
+good sportsman himself, entered into my feelings.
+
+"The dog was thoroughly provoked by your bad shooting, Craven," said he,
+"and you will never make either him or me believe it was his fault. But
+try again. There is no necessity for you to be a sportsman; but if you
+choose to do a thing at all, you had better do it properly; and you may
+learn as well as any body else, if you will not fancy yourself perfect.
+We will all go out together to-day."
+
+And so we all went out together on that fatal day. I did myself credit,
+and my master did me justice, and I was happy in my ignorance of coming
+events. Craven shot and missed, and shot and missed again; but my
+master's laugh stopped him whenever he was beginning to lay the blame on
+dog or gun.
+
+"Bad workmen always find fault with their tools, Craven," said my
+master. "Take better aim."
+
+John tried to teach him, but he would listen to no advice.
+
+It is seldom that a person's fault or folly injures himself alone, and,
+alas for me! I was the victim of Craven's conceit and obstinacy. At his
+next fire I felt a pang that I never can forget. His ill-directed shot
+had entered my shoulder, and I sank down howling with agony. My
+companions instantly surrounded me, uttering exclamations of alarm,
+regret, and pity, Craven himself being the foremost and loudest. He
+never should forgive himself, he said; it was all his awkwardness and
+stupidity; he was never so sorry for any thing in his life.
+
+He ran to a neighbouring cottage for a shutter, while my master and John
+bound up the wound. They then placed me carefully on the shutter, and
+carried me home, Craven reproaching himself and pitying me every time he
+opened his lips. I scarcely knew him for the same person who had been
+so conceited and supercilious half an hour before; and even my master,
+who was extremely angry with him, grew softened by his penitence.
+
+They carried me two at a time, in turn; and when Craven was walking by
+my side, he stroked my head, saying, "Poor Captain, how I wish I could
+do any thing to relieve you! if you could but understand how grieved and
+ashamed I am, I think you would forgive me."
+
+Though suffering greatly, I could not but be touched by his sorrow; and
+when I heard the kind tones of his voice, and saw tears standing in his
+eyes, my anger quite melted away, and I licked his hand to show that I
+bore no malice.
+
+My accident confined me to the kennel for a considerable time, but every
+care and attention was paid me. My master and John doctored my wound,
+and Lily brought me my food every day with her own hands. As long as
+Craven remained in the house, he never failed to accompany her,
+repeating his regret and good-will towards me; and after he had left us
+I heard old John observe: "I always thought there was some good in
+Master Craven; and his brother is as fine a fellow as ever lived, and
+won't let it drop. The boy is quite changed now. Between Captain and
+Miss Lily, I reckon he has had a lesson he'll not forget."
+
+In due time I recovered, and was as strong and handsome as ever; but,
+strange to say, I no longer felt like the same dog. My own sufferings
+had suggested some serious reflections as to whether being shot might
+not be as unpleasant to the birds as to me; and I really began quite to
+pity them. So far the change was for the better; but it did not stop
+there: not only was my love for field-sports extinguished, but it had
+given place to a timidity which neither threats nor caresses could
+overcome. I shuddered at the very sight of a gun, and no amount either
+of reward or punishment could induce me again to brave its effects.
+Under all other circumstances I was as courageous as before: I would
+have attacked a wild beast, or defended the house against a robber,
+without the slightest fear; but I could not stand fire; and the moment I
+saw a gun pointed, there was no help for it, I fairly turned tail and
+ran off.
+
+"The poor beast is spoilt, sir," said John to my master. "It is cruel to
+force him, and he'll never be good for any thing again."
+
+"It is of no use taking him out," replied my master; "but he is far from
+good for nothing. He has plenty of spirit still, and we must make a
+house-dog of him."
+
+So I was appointed house-dog. At first I certainly felt the change of
+life very unpleasant; but I reflected that it was my own doing, though
+not exactly my own fault; and I determined to make the best of it, and
+adapt myself to my new employments. At the beginning of that summer, if
+any body had told me that I should be content to stay in the court and
+garden, sometimes even tethered to a tree on the lawn,--that my most
+adventurous amusement would he a quiet walk over the grounds, and my
+most exciting occupation the looking-out for suspicious characters,--I
+should have sneered, perhaps even growled at the prediction; but so it
+was, and before long I grew reconciled to my new station, and resolved
+to gain more credit as a guard than even as a sporting dog.
+
+We were not much troubled with thieves, for we lived in a quiet country
+place, where we knew every body and every body knew us, and no one was
+likely to wish us any harm; but it did once happen that my vigilance was
+put to the proof.
+
+There was a fair in our neighbourhood, attended by all the villages
+near. During the morning I amused myself by watching the people in
+their smart dresses passing our gate, laughing and talking merrily. I
+had many acquaintances among them, who greeted me with good-natured
+speeches, which I answered by polite wags of my tail.
+
+John, and others of our servants, went to the fair, and seemed to enjoy
+themselves as much as any body. They returned home before dark, and all
+the respectable persons who had passed our gate in the morning re-passed
+it at an early hour in the evening, looking as if they had spent a
+pleasant day, but perfectly quiet and sober; and I was much pleased at
+seeing them so well behaved.
+
+But among the crowd of passengers in the morning, I had noticed several
+men whose appearance I highly disapproved. Some of them scowled at me as
+they passed, and I felt sure they were bent upon no good; but one, the
+worst-looking of all, stopped, and whistled to me, holding out a piece
+of meat. I need scarcely say that I indignantly rejected his bribe--for
+such I knew it was--meant to entice me in some way or other to neglect
+my duty; so I growled and snarled, and watched him well as he passed on.
+No fear of my not knowing him again by sight or smell. Several of these
+ill-looking men returned intoxicated, to my great disgust; for I had a
+peculiar objection to persons in that condition, and never trusted a
+man who could degrade himself below my own level. I watched them all,
+every moment expecting the one who had tried to curry favour with me,
+for I had an instinctive assurance that I had not seen the last of him.
+Night drew on while I was still on the look-out, and yet he did not
+appear. The rest of the family went calmly to bed, taking no notice of
+my disquietude; but nothing could have induced _me_ to curl myself round
+and shut my eyes. I was sure danger was near, and it was my part as a
+faithful guardian to be prepared for it. So I alternately paced
+cautiously round the court, or sat up in my kennel with my head out
+listening for every sound. By degrees the returning parties of revellers
+dwindled to now and then a solitary pedestrian; and the hum of voices
+gradually subsided, till all was silent, and the whole country seemed
+asleep. Still I watched on, with unabated vigilance, deep into the
+night. At last I thought I heard outside the wall a very cautious
+footstep, accompanied by an almost inaudible whisper. I pricked up my
+ears; the footstep came nearer, and a hand was upon the lock of the
+courtyard-gate. I sniffed the air; there was no mistake; I smelt the
+very man whom I expected. Others might be with him, but there was _he_.
+Without a moment's delay, I set up an alarum that might have wakened the
+whole village; at any rate, it woke our whole house. Down stairs came my
+master in his dressing-gown; down came old John, lantern in hand, and
+red nightcap on head. Lily peeped out of her bedroom window, with a
+shawl over her shoulders; and seeing her papa in the court, ran down to
+help him,--as if she could have been any help against robbers, poor
+little darling! The servants assembled in such strange attire, that they
+looked to me like a herd of animals who had got into each other's coats
+by mistake. But the maids had kept their own voices at any rate, for
+they screamed almost as loud as I barked. It was a proud moment for me;
+and the greater everybody's fright, and the more noise and confusion
+they made, the prouder I was. It was all _my_ doing. It was _I_ who had
+called them all in the middle of the night. Their confidence in me was
+such, that at the sound of my voice they had all left their beds, and
+assembled in the courtyard in their night-gowns. How clever and careful
+they must think me! And how clever and careful I thought myself! I
+danced round Lily, and bounded about in all directions, till I knocked
+down the sleepy stable-boy, and got into every body's way. I never was
+in such glee in my life. But my master and John were quiet enough, and
+they examined the gate, and the footsteps outside, and decided that
+there certainly had been an attempt to break into the house, but that
+the robbers had been frightened away by me.
+
+"It has been a narrow escape for them, sir," said John; "for if they had
+succeeded in getting in, the dog would have pinned them."
+
+"Captain has done his duty well," said my master, "and no one can call
+him useless any more."
+
+"It is a good thing no one was hurt," added Lily; "but I am glad they
+were frightened. Perhaps the fright will cure them."
+
+After this adventure I was treated with great respect. By night I
+watched the house, and by day I was Lily's constant companion. We were
+allowed to take long rambles together, as her father knew she was safe
+under my care. I learnt to carry her basket or parasol for her, and to
+sit faithfully guarding them while she scrambled up banks or through
+bushes, looking for flowers. I was also an excellent swimmer, and could
+fetch sticks which she had thrown to the very middle of the stream. I
+could not make out why she wanted the sticks, as she never took them
+home with her; but we were quite of one mind about fetching them out of
+the water. Often I accompanied her to the village, and lay at the
+cottage-doors while she paid visits to the people inside. Then the
+little children used to gather round me, and pat me, and pull my ears;
+and even if they pulled a little too hard, I scorned to complain, or
+hurt them in return; and when Lily came out, I was rewarded by her
+praise of me as the best and gentlest dog in the world.
+
+At other times she used to establish herself to read or work under a
+tree on the lawn, while I lay at her feet, or sat upright by her side. I
+was careful not to interrupt her when she was busy, but she often left
+off reading to speak to me, and sometimes let me keep my front paw in
+hers as we sat together. These were happy days, and I should have liked
+them to last for ever. But this state of tranquillity was to be
+disturbed, and I am sorry to say by my own folly.
+
+I had insensibly imbibed a notion, or rather a feeling, that I was
+Lily's only pet and favourite, and that nothing else had a right to
+attract her notice. Of course I allowed her to pay proper attention to
+human beings; I knew that I could not come into competition with _them_,
+and therefore I never was jealous of them; but a word or a look
+bestowed upon an inferior animal appeared to me an affront which proper
+self-respect required me to resent.
+
+One day Lily appeared in the garden carrying a little white kitten in
+her arms. I should have liked to have it to worry, and as Lily was very
+good-natured, I thought she had brought it for that purpose; so I sat
+watching ready to snap at it the moment she should toss it at me. After
+a time, I began to think she ought not to tantalise me by keeping me
+waiting so long, and I tried to show my impatience by various signs that
+she could understand. But to my surprise she was not only insensible to
+my hints, but took upon herself to reprove me, saying, "No, Captain,
+that is not being a good dog; you must not want to hurt the poor little
+kitten. Go farther off."
+
+If ever I was affronted in my life it was then. I turned round, and
+shaking my ears, sat down with my back to Lily and her disgusting
+kitten, and absolutely refused even to look round when she spoke to me.
+
+This was the beginning of a period in my life to which I always recur
+with shame and regret. I continued in a state of unmitigated sulks. Even
+Lily could not appease me. If she came to see me by herself, indeed, or
+with only human beings in her train, I brightened up for the moment;
+but if she appeared with the kitten in her arms, my surliness was
+disgraceful. Nobody knows how I detested the kitten. I thought it a
+misfortune to the universe that that kitten should exist.
+
+On thinking it over at this distance of time, I honestly confess that I
+had no right to be jealous; Lily remitted none of her kindness, and gave
+me every proof of much higher regard and esteem than she bestowed on the
+kitten. She fed me, patted me, took me out walking, and talked to me
+just as usual; and as soon as she perceived my objection to her new pet,
+she left off bringing it with her, and was careful to keep it out of my
+sight. But I saw it in spite of all her pains. It was incessantly
+intruding itself upon my notice, sometimes on the roof of the house,
+sometimes jumping from a window-ledge; now perched upon a paling, now
+climbing the pillars of the verandah; and always looking clean and white
+and pretty, with a bit of blue ribbon which Lily had tied round its
+neck, as if on purpose to provoke me. Even when I did not see it, I
+heard it mew; and when I did not hear it, I thought about it.
+
+I was miserable. To be sure I had no right to expect Lily to like nobody
+but me, and I had nothing to complain of; every pleasure and comfort in
+life was mine. Indeed, I think a real grievance would have been rather
+pleasant to me. I should have liked an injustice. I was determined to
+sulk, and should have been glad to have something to sulk at. But no;
+people would persevere in being kind to me. I might be as ill-tempered
+as I pleased; nobody punished, or even scolded me; and whenever I chose
+to be in good humour, my friends were always ready to meet me half-way.
+Indeed, I never was quite sure whether they noticed my ill-temper or
+not. But I did not try to come round, though certainly sulking did not
+conduce to my comfort. I once heard my master remark, in reference to
+some disagreeable human being, that ill-tempered people made themselves
+more unhappy than they made others; so I suppose sulking does not always
+agree even with men; I know it does not with dogs. It was a wretched
+time.
+
+I continued to brood over my imaginary grievances, little thinking how
+soon they would be exchanged for real troubles. I had been discontented
+while every enjoyment was at my command, and now I was to wish in vain
+for the happiness I had neglected. And yet, in the point which I
+considered most important, I had my own way. I one day thought that if
+I were never again to see Lily caressing that kitten, I should be quite
+happy. I never again saw Lily caressing the kitten, and from that day my
+real sorrows began.
+
+There was a bustle in the house. Every thing seemed in confusion. Every
+body was doing something different from usual. Furniture and trunks were
+carried up and down stairs. My master's study was full of great chests;
+and he and Lily, instead of reading the books, spent all their time in
+hiding them in these chests. Next, my friend John came and nailed covers
+on the chests. After the first was nailed down, I jumped upon it, and
+sat watching John while he hammered the others; switching my tail, and
+winking my eyes at every stroke of his hammer, rather surprised at all
+that went on, but yet liking the bustle.
+
+"Ah, poor old boy," said John, "I wonder how you'll take it."
+
+"Take what?" thought I, and wondered too.
+
+One day, John and another man went out with the horses, each riding on
+one and leading another. Thinking they were going to exercise them, I
+followed as I often did; but when we came to the end of the village John
+ordered me home, saying, "Good bye, Captain. Don't forget us, old
+fellow." I returned according to his command, but felt very much
+puzzled, as John had never before sent me home.
+
+On arriving at the house, a waggon was standing at the door, piled up to
+a great height with chests and packages; and on the top of all was
+perched an ugly cur, barking as if he considered himself the master of
+everything. I was willing to make a civil acquaintance with him, but the
+little mongrel had the audacity to bark at _me_,--me in my own
+dominions! I did not think he was worth touching, besides which, I could
+not get at him; but I growled fiercely; and his master, who was loading
+the waggon, desired me to "get out of the way."
+
+Thus rejected on all sides, I betook myself to the court, and rolled
+myself round in the straw of my own kennel, where nobody could affront
+me. There I remained till I heard Lily's sweet voice at a distance
+calling, "Captain, Captain!" I bounded forth once more at the sound, and
+met my pretty mistress in her walking dress, with the basket in her hand
+which I had so often carried. But she did not invite me to accompany
+her. "Poor Captain," said she, "I am come to bid you good bye. I am
+afraid you will miss us sadly; but I hope they will take good care of
+you. Good bye, best of dogs."
+
+"Come, Lily, make haste," I heard my master call from the gate, and Lily
+and I ran towards him. He was standing by a carriage, with the door
+open and the steps let down. The gardener and his wife were near; he
+with his hat in his hand, and she wiping her eyes with the corner of her
+apron. Lily jumped into the carriage, her papa followed her; the
+gardener wished them a pleasant journey, "and a happy return," added his
+wife, and they drove off, Lily keeping her head at the window, and
+kissing her hand to us till she was out of sight.
+
+At first I had no idea that they were not coming back. Though I heard
+the gardener say that they were "gone for good," it did not occur to me
+that that meant harm to us. They often went out for a day and returned
+in the evening; so at the usual time I expected their ring at the bell,
+and went to the gate to meet them. But no bell rang; no carriage drove
+up; no sound of horses' hoofs was to be heard in the distance, though I
+listened till the gardener came to lock up for the night, and ordered me
+to the court, where it was my business to keep guard.
+
+Next morning there was a strange stillness and idleness. No master
+taking his early walk over the grounds. No Lily gathering her flowers
+before breakfast. No John to open the stable door, and let me in to bark
+good morning to the horses. No horses; a boy sweeping the deserted
+stable, and rack and manger empty. No carriage; the coach-house filled
+with lumber, and the shutters closed in the loft. No servants about. I
+rather congratulated myself upon the disappearance of Lily's maid, who
+had a habit of making uncivil speeches if I crossed her path in running
+to meet Lily. That maid and I had never been friends since I once had
+the misfortune to shake myself near her when coming out of the water. I
+confess I did wet her, and I did dirty her; but I did not know that
+water would hurt her coat,--it never hurt mine; and she need not have
+borne malice for ever; I should have forgiven her long ago if she had
+dirtied me. But whenever she saw me she took the opportunity of saying
+something mortifying, as, "Out of the way; don't come nigh me with that
+great mop of yours!" or, "Get along with you! I wonder what Miss Lily
+can see to like in such a great lumbering brute." I kept out of her way
+as much as I could, and it was now some consolation that she did not
+come in mine.
+
+But it was a dull day. In due time the gardener's wife called, and gave
+me my breakfast, setting it down outside the kitchen door. It was a
+comfortable breakfast, for she was a good-natured woman, not likely to
+neglect Lily's charge to take care of me. I wagged my tail, and looked
+up in her face to thank her, but she was already gone without taking
+farther notice of me. She had done her work of giving me the necessaries
+of life, and my feelings were nothing to her. How I remembered my pretty
+Lily, and wished for her pleasant welcome.
+
+After breakfast I went on an expedition to the flower-garden, thinking I
+might have a chance of finding some trace of my mistress in that
+favourite haunt. The gate was shut, but I heard steps, and scratched to
+be let in. I scratched and whined for some time; Lily would not have
+kept me half so long. At last the gardener looked over the top of the
+gate:
+
+"Oh, it's you," said he; "I thought so. But you had best go and amuse
+yourself in places proper for you; you are not coming to walk over my
+flowerbeds any more."
+
+He did not speak unkindly, and I had often heard him tell Lily that I
+was "best out of the flower-garden;" so I could not reasonably grumble;
+but his speech showed the change in my position, and I walked away from
+the closed gate with my mind much oppressed, and my tail between my
+legs.
+
+I intended to go and meditate in the boat, but here again I was
+disappointed; the boat-house was locked; I had no resource but to jump
+into the water and swim to a little island in which Lily had a favourite
+arbour. There in a summer's day she often rested, hidden in jessamine
+and honeysuckle; and there I now took refuge, attracted to the spot by
+its strong association with herself.
+
+I scarcely know whether I sought the arbour with the hope of finding her
+present, or the intention of mourning her absent; but I went to think
+about her. Alas! that was all I could do. She was not there. A book of
+hers had been left unheeded on the ground, and I laid down and placed my
+paws upon it to guard it, as I had often done before. In this position I
+fell asleep, and remained unconscious of fortunes or misfortunes, till I
+was awakened by dreaming of dinner. _That_ dream could be realised. I
+jumped up, shook myself, and yawned more comfortably than I had done all
+day.
+
+On moving my paws from Lily's book, it struck me that it would be right
+to carry it home to her; and then once more the hope revived of finding
+her at home herself. It was the most likely thing in the world that she
+should come home to dinner. Everybody did, I supposed; I was going home
+to dinner myself.
+
+With the book in my mouth, I swam across the water. Perhaps I did not
+keep it quite dry, but I carried it into the house, and laid it down
+before the gardener and his wife, who were the only persons I could see
+on the premises.
+
+"Well, that is sensible, I must confess," said the gardener. "The dumb
+animal has found missy's book, and brought it back. Miss Lily would
+like to hear that."
+
+"Ah, she always thought a deal of the creature," replied his wife; "and
+for her sake he shan't be neglected. Here's your dinner, Captain."
+
+"Give him that bone," said the gardener; "that's what he'll like."
+
+So they gave me a charming bone, quite to my taste; and for a time I
+forgot all my anxieties in the pleasure of turning it round, sucking,
+biting, pawing, and growling over it. I cared for no other dinner;
+indeed I never could understand how people could trouble themselves to
+eat anything else as long as there was a bone to gnaw. But it is
+fortunate there are various tastes in the world; and the strange
+preference of men for other food is convenient for us dogs, as it leaves
+us in more undisputed possession of the bones than if our masters liked
+gnawing them too.
+
+But the pleasure of a bone does not last for ever, and among the nobler
+races of animals Thought cannot be entirely kept under by eating. I have
+heard that greedy human beings sometimes reduce themselves to the
+condition of pigs, who are entirely devoted to cramming; but _I_ should
+not choose to degrade myself to that level. So I soon began meditating,
+and cogitating, and speculating again.
+
+My life now grew every day more and more dismal. Dinner-time brought its
+bone, but bones soon failed to comfort me. The gardener said I was "off
+my feed," and his wife feared I should mope to death. All day I wandered
+about looking for Lily, and at night retired to my kennel, under the sad
+impression that she was farther off than ever. The gardener himself once
+invited me into the flower-garden in hopes of amusing me, and I explored
+all the gravel-walks, carefully avoiding the borders; but there was no
+trace of my lost Lily, and I never cared to visit it again.
+
+One day I thought I would search the house. It was thrown open to me.
+There were no forbidden drawing-rooms now; I prowled about as I pleased.
+If the doors were shut, I might scratch as long as I liked; nobody
+answered. If open, I walked round and round the room, brushing the
+wainscot with my tail. There were no china ornaments to be thrown down
+now, and I might whisk it about as I would. Formerly I had often wished
+for free entrance to those rooms; now I should have welcomed a friendly
+hand that shut me out of them. In passing before a large mirror, I
+marvelled at my own forlorn and neglected appearance. Once, I was worth
+looking at in a glass; now, what a difference! Sorrow had so changed my
+whole aspect, that I stared with dismay at the gaunt spectre which
+stared at me in return, and we howled at each other for company.
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN'S DREAM. Page 40]
+
+Lying down before the blank mirror, which had formerly thrown back so
+many pleasant images, and now reflected only my solitary figure in the
+deserted room, I silently pondered on the past. In a half-wakeful,
+half-dozing state, my eyes alternately opening and shutting, now winking
+and blinking at the glass, now for a moment losing sight of every thing,
+the events of my life seemed to pass before me in a dream; the persons
+with whom I had been connected rose up again as shadows, and I myself
+seemed another shadow gliding about among them, but a shadow whose
+behaviour I had acquired a new faculty of observing.
+
+I saw myself now as others saw me,--an uncommon condition either for
+dogs or men,--and I watched my own deportment in all my states of mind
+and stages of life. I saw myself first a mere puppy, not worth notice.
+The puppy grew, and I saw it as a dog; a fine, well-bred, and certainly
+a fortunate dog. Then as a clever, knowing, useful dog; a gentle,
+patient, obedient dog. Sometimes perhaps an awkward or foolish dog; but
+those were pardonable faults, while I was certainly a brave, honest, and
+faithful dog. But at last I saw myself as a _jealous dog_; and I paused,
+startled at the strange light in which my conduct appeared. How silly,
+unreasonable, and fractious I had been! I plainly perceived that what I
+had taken for injured dignity and wounded affection was nothing but
+pride and envy; that I had not a single ground of complaint, but that my
+own ill-temper might have justly given offence to my best friends; and
+while I had fancied myself setting so high a value upon Lily's regard, I
+was recklessly running the risk of losing it altogether. Happily I had
+been spared _that_ punishment, however well deserved. Lily's friendship
+had never failed me. She had either excused or not perceived my faults,
+and we had parted on the best possible terms.
+
+Now that I could view matters more justly, I was quite out of patience
+with myself for fancying that I should be happy if I no longer saw Lily
+nursing that kitten. Happy indeed! There was no chance of my being
+troubled with such a sight, and I was miserable! I would have put up
+with all the cats and kittens that were met coming from St. Ives; I
+would have tried to settle the quarrel between the Kilkenny cats who ate
+each other up, all but the tips of their tails;--any thing to see Lily
+once more, even if she chose to nurse all the kittens of "Catland."
+
+But it was too late; my regrets were all in vain; and the only course
+that seemed left for me now was to give up the rest of my days to
+brooding over my sorrows and my faults. But before I had quite devoted
+myself to this line of life, I gave a glance at my shadow in the glass
+doing the same. There I saw him moping away all his time; making no
+amends for his bad conduct, no attempts at behaving better; utterly
+useless, sulky, and disagreeable; in fact, more foolish than ever.
+
+"No," thought I, as I jumped up and shook myself all over, "I will not
+have this distressing experience for nothing; I will make good use of
+it; I cannot recall the past, but I will act differently for the
+future;" and down I lay again to make plans for the future. Coming
+events cast no shadows before, either in the glass or in my dreams. I
+knew nothing about what I might, could, would, or should do. The Past I
+had lost, the Future was not in my power; and what remained to me?
+Perhaps I might never have an opportunity of behaving well again.
+
+I was fast relapsing into despondency, when suddenly I was aroused from
+my dreams by a sound once odious to me. I raised myself upon my front
+paws and listened. There was no mistake, I heard it again; a thin and
+timid _mew_, dying away in the distance, and sounding as if it proceeded
+from the mere shadow of a cat. But faint and shadowy as it was, I
+recognised it; it recalled me to realities, and the conviction of my
+right line of conduct flashed across my mind. The Present--the present
+moment was mine. I could only take warning by the past, and hope for the
+future, but I must act _now_. I have but to take every opportunity when
+it offers itself, and there would be no fear of not having opportunities
+enough. Here was one ready at hand. Instead of worrying that kitten, who
+was now in my power, I would magnanimously endure her existence. I would
+do more; I would let her know that she had nothing any longer to fear
+from me; and in pursuance of this kind intention, I walked about the
+room in search of her.
+
+I soon descried her, perched upon the top of a high bookcase, not daring
+to come down for fear of me. She was altered by recent events, though
+not so much as I. She looked forlorn and uncomfortable, but not shaggy,
+haggard, or dirty. The regard to her toilette which had characterised
+her in better days still clung to her, and made her neat and tidy in
+misfortune. The blue ribbon round her neck was indeed faded, but in
+other respects she looked as clean and white and sleek as Lily herself.
+She had evidently licked herself all over every day, instead of moping
+in the dirt. She and Lily had always been somewhat alike in point of
+cleanliness. Indeed, I once imagined that Lily must lick herself all
+over in order to look so clean; but on further consideration I had
+reason to believe that she commonly attained her object by plunging into
+cold water, more after my own fashion.
+
+But to return to the kitten. There she stood, the very picture of fear;
+her legs stretched, her tail arched, her back raised, trying to assume
+the best posture of defence she could, but evidently believing it of no
+use. She mewed louder at every step I took nearer. Even if I had been
+inclined to harm her, she was safe enough on the top of that high
+bookcase; but she did not know that. In her inexperience, she fancied me
+able to spring about the world as she did, and expected every moment
+that I should perch on the carved oak crown, and seize her in my mouth,
+jump down again and crunch her as she would a mouse.
+
+She began running backwards and forwards on the top of her bookcase,
+mewing piteously at every turn. I understood her language: it meant,
+"Oh, what shall I do? Mew, mew! Pray, my lord, have pity upon an
+unfortunate kitten! Mew, mew, mew! If you will let me run away this
+time, I will keep out of your lordship's sight all the rest of my life.
+Mew, mew, mew! Oh dear, I had not the least intention of intruding on
+your highness; I thought your majesty was in the stable. I wish I was
+in the coal-cellar myself. Oh, oh, pray! oh, mew!"
+
+So she went on for a long time, in too great a fright to observe the
+encouragement and condescension which I threw into my countenance and
+manner. I sat down in front of the bookcase, and holding my head on one
+side, looked up at her with an expression of gentle benevolence, which I
+thought must re-assure the most timid spirit. It had some effect. She
+ceased running from side to side, and stopped opposite me, her yellow
+eyes fixed on mine. I returned her gaze, and wagged my tail. She lowered
+hers, which bad been held up like a peacock's, and reduced to its
+natural dimensions. After a sufficient amount of staring, we began to
+understand one another, and Pussy's mews were in a very different tone,
+and one much more satisfactory to me.
+
+[Illustration: PUSS AND THE CAPTAIN. Page 46]
+
+Though every animal makes use of a dialect of its own, so different as
+to appear to men a distinct language for each race,--for instance, the
+barking of a dog, the mewing of a cat, the bellowing of a bull,
+&c.,--still, a general mode of expression is common to all, and all can
+understand and be understood by one another. The reason of this is, that
+the universal language is that of _feeling_ only, which is alike to
+every one, and can be made evident by the most inarticulate sounds.
+Moans, murmurs, sighs, whines, growls, roars, are sufficient to
+express our _feelings_: our _thoughts_, when we have any, we must keep
+to ourselves; for they cannot be made intelligible by mere sound without
+speech, and speech we know belongs to man alone. In fact, I suppose it
+is the power of thinking and speaking which makes him our master;
+without it, I am not at all sure that he would have so much the upper
+hand of us, for we are often the strongest. But a man can always know
+what he means to do, and why he means to do it; and he can tell others,
+and consult them about it; which, of course, gives him an immense
+advantage over us, who only act upon the spur of the moment, without
+knowing whether we are right or wrong.
+
+Good-nature was all that Pussy and I wanted to express just now, and
+_that_ is always easy to show, with or without words. Mews in various
+tones from her were met by small, good-humoured half-barks and agreeable
+grunts from me, till at last she fairly left off mewing, and began to
+purr. Much pleased with my success so far, I now lay down, stretching
+out my front paws to their full length before, and my tail behind,
+brushing the floor in a half-circle with the latter. Then I yawned in a
+friendly way, and finally laid my head down on my paws to watch my
+little protégée quietly, in hopes of enticing her from her fortress.
+
+This last insinuating attitude decided her. She gently placed first one
+little white paw, and then another, on projecting ornaments of the
+bookcase, one step on the lion, and the next on the unicorn; and without
+hurting either herself or the delicate carved work which she chose to
+use as her staircase, she alighted harmless and unharmed within my
+reach. Then she mewed once more; but that was her last expression of
+doubt or dread. I soon reassured her; and that moment was the first of a
+confidence and intimacy seldom seen between our uncongenial races.
+
+We had now, in our way, a long conversation, during which we became
+pretty well acquainted with each other's dispositions; and in due time
+we descended the stairs together in perfect amity; I gravely walked step
+by step, and looking up benignly at the gambols of little Pussy, who,
+now in high spirits, had no idea of coming down in a regular way, but
+must scramble up the banisters, hang by her claws from the hand-rail,
+recover herself instantaneously when within an inch of falling headlong
+into the hall, and play a hundred other wild tricks. A short time
+before, I should have thought all this a most despicable waste of time
+and strength; but now I could see that it did her good and made her
+happy, and I looked on rather with approbation.
+
+I shall never forget the surprise of the gardener's wife when Puss and I
+entered the kitchen side by side. She screamed as if we had been a
+couple of wild beasts.
+
+"Oh," cried she, "there's that poor little kitten just under Captain's
+nose! He'll be the death of her. What shall I do?"
+
+She seized a broom, and held it between us, ready to beat me if I
+ventured to attack the kitten. But I wagged my tail, and Puss jumped
+over the broomstick.
+
+"Well to be sure!" said Mrs. Gardener, letting fall the broom, and
+holding up her hands; "did any body ever see the like of that!"
+
+She placed a saucer of milk on the floor, and I sat quietly and let the
+kitten drink it. The kitten herself was a little surprised at this, and
+hesitated before beginning, not knowing exactly what it might be proper
+for her to do; indeed, I could scarcely expect her to understand the
+etiquette of so unusual a circumstance; but she had a great deal of
+tact, and soon perceived that I wished her to go on naturally; so she
+began lapping, though looking round at me between every two or three
+mouthfuls, to make sure that she was not taking a liberty. But meeting
+with nothing but encouragement, she finished her repast with great
+satisfaction, and we both laid ourselves down by the kitchen-fire, as
+if we had been friends all our lives.
+
+"Well to be sure!" exclaimed the gardener's wife again. It was her
+favourite phrase; she seemed never to tire of it, and to have little
+else to say; but I understood what she meant, and took a comfortable nap
+in consequence.
+
+By and by came dinner, and a pleasant little meal it was. Instead of
+flying at the kitten for presuming to eat at all, I quite enjoyed having
+a companion. My platter stood, as usual, in the yard, and Pussy's in a
+corner of the kitchen; but by mutual consent we began dragging our
+respective bones along the ground to eat in company; and the gardener's
+wife seeing the proceeding, carried our plates for us, and placed them
+side by side outside the door, and we finished our meal in the most
+sociable manner.
+
+Times were now altered: but I need not give a detailed account of every
+day. The good understanding between Pussy and me continued to increase,
+till it ripened into the warmest friendship. Uncongenial companion as
+she appeared, I grew by degrees fonder of her than I had ever been of
+any of my own tribe; and although our habits were by nature totally
+dissimilar, we learned to understand, and even to take pleasure in
+accommodating ourselves to each other's little peculiarities.
+
+I confess this was not done in a moment. At first I certainly was
+occasionally annoyed by Pussy's inconsistencies. She would profess to be
+so refined, that a speck of dirt on her white coat made her unhappy; so
+delicate, that she could not endure to wet her feet; so modest, that she
+could not bear to be looked at while she was eating; while at the same
+time she would scamper into the dirtiest hole after a mouse, and then
+devour the nasty vermin with a satisfaction quite disgusting to a
+well-bred sporting dog like myself.
+
+I wished to educate her in the sentiments and habits of my own nobler
+race, but I found it a hopeless task. If I took her out for a walk, and
+tried to impress her with the pleasure of a good healthy swim in the
+pond, she listened politely; but in spite of all my arguments, when we
+arrived at the water's edge, and I plunged in, she never could be
+induced to follow; there she stood, mewing and shivering on the brink,
+not daring even to wet her claws. If I objected to her mice, she argued
+that they were her natural food, and agreed with her; and so on through
+all my attempts to reform her.
+
+The little creature had generally an answer ready; and what was
+peculiarly provoking to a person unused to contradiction, like myself,
+she often disputed points upon which I had supposed there could be but
+one opinion. When I was trying to shame her into being more like a dog,
+she actually told me that she doubted whether mine really was the nobler
+race, for that the lion was her chief, and she challenged me to show his
+equal. This was the more irritating because I could not answer it; and I
+take some credit to myself for having kept my temper on the occasion, as
+I did feel tempted to give her a shake. Luckily it occurred to me that
+quarrelling with people for being in the right would not put them in the
+wrong, and that shaking them might not be the way to shake their
+opinions. So I was silent, and pretended to be indulgent.
+
+After all, the little cat had received an education extremely suitable
+to her character and circumstances. Lily had made an in-door companion
+of her, as she had made an out-door one of me, and had taken great pains
+to cultivate her natural talents. Her manners were perfect. It was
+impossible to be more gentle, graceful, and courteous than Puss. Always
+at hand, but never in the way; quick in observing, but slow in
+interfering; active and ready in her own work, but quiet and retiring
+when not required to come forward; affectionate in her temper, and
+regular in her habits,--she was a thoroughly feminine domestic
+character.
+
+She had her own ideas about me, which she communicated to me when we
+were sufficiently intimate for her to speak openly. Perhaps she did not
+admire me quite so much as I admired myself; but perhaps she was
+right--who knows? I have heard that even among men, lookers-on are
+sometimes the best judges. She did full justice to my strength and
+courage, and applauded my daring way of rushing upon an enemy, without
+regard to his size or position, instead of running into a corner and
+spitting at him. She admitted, without hesitation, that mine was the
+superior proceeding; but she suggested, that perhaps it might be as well
+not to be quite so ready to attack other dogs before they had given me
+any offence: also that it was unnecessary to suppose that every man who
+came to the house _must_ have bad intentions, whether he gave me just
+cause for suspicion or not. In fact, she hinted that it was good to be
+brave, but bad to be quarrelsome. Then as to my personal appearance, she
+acknowledged that I was larger and handsomer than she, and that my
+rough, shaggy coat was far from unbecoming; but when I laughed at her
+finical cleanliness, and called her affected for not keeping her own
+white fur as rough and muddy as mine, she reminded me that it was that
+very neatness, so despised by me, which had procured her entrance into
+Lily's drawing-room, while I, with all my good qualities, was never
+allowed to come up stairs.
+
+I had always thought it rather grand to bang about in a careless manner;
+and if I knocked any thing down, I supposed it was the thing's fault. I
+once swept down with my tail a whole trayful of crockery; and when I was
+scolded for doing mischief, I thought it quite sufficient excuse to say
+to myself, "I did not do it on purpose; what is the use of making such a
+fuss?" But I now saw clearly that Pussy's care not to do any mischief at
+all was both more agreeable to others and more advantageous to herself.
+
+For instance, the gardener's wife turned me out in the cold while she
+was washing the china, whereas she let Pussy walk about on the very
+table among the cups and saucers, stepping so carefully with her soft
+little paws that there was no danger of any breakage. I have seen her
+walk along the edge of every shelf on the dresser, without disarranging
+a single plate. Then, while I was despising Puss for catching mice, I
+heard the gardener's wife giving her the highest praise for being an
+excellent mouser; and to my surprise, I found out that it was the
+regular work for which she was kept in the house.
+
+So, as time went on, we learnt to understand each other better and
+better, and our companionship was useful in teaching us to be less
+narrow-minded in our estimation of each other and things in general. I
+discovered that it was not necessary for every body to be exactly alike;
+that cats and dogs, and perhaps also men and women, had a right each to
+his own character; and that people must be mutually accommodating, every
+body giving up a little, and no one expecting to make his own way the
+rule for every body. And Pussy learnt herself, and taught me another
+lesson, that every body is one's superior in something, so that any body
+may improve by taking pattern by any body else; I mean, by looking for
+and imitating their good qualities, instead of picking out and snarling
+over their faults.
+
+Time slipped away very happily and imperceptibly. There were few changes
+in our mode of life; though Pussy, from a kitten, in due time became a
+full-grown cat, who left off running after her tail and climbing up the
+banisters, and walked up and down stairs as steadily as I did myself. In
+other respects our relations remained the same; I was the patron and
+protector, she the friend and companion, sharing the same kennel and the
+same platter, and both metamorphosed from the bitterest enemies into the
+comfort and delight of each other's lives.
+
+One day while we were basking in the sunshine, with our eyes half shut,
+and Pussy purring pleasantly, I heard the sound of wheels at a distance.
+Supposing it to be the baker's cart, I roused myself, and ran to the
+gate, according to custom, to see him give in the bread. But long before
+the vehicle came in sight, I smelt the difference between it and the
+baker's cart. It came nearer; I felt in a state of uncommon agitation;
+old recollections and associations returned with extraordinary
+vividness, and my eagerness was intense till the carriage stopped at the
+door. No wonder I had been so much excited; for who should be on the box
+but my old friend John? and who should get out of the carriage but my
+master himself.
+
+Was I not in raptures! And did I not jump and tear about the court in my
+joy! Pussy sat at the window watching my vagaries with astonishment.
+When she understood the state of the case, she was very glad to see our
+master, but expressed her pleasure in a more moderate way than I.
+
+My master and John were cordial in their greetings to every body, but
+they seemed very busy, and spent the rest of the day in walking over the
+place and giving a number of orders. I followed close at their heels,
+very happy to be in their company once more. The gardener and his wife
+made many inquiries about Lily, as I would have done myself if I could;
+and I listened eagerly to my master's replies, though I was rather
+puzzled by some of them. He said she was quite well and very happy, but
+that he missed her sadly.
+
+"I can understand _that_," thought I, as I looked up at him in sympathy.
+
+I believe he understood me, for he patted my head, saying, "Poor
+Captain, she was very fond of you."
+
+The gardener and his wife said that they had been "quite proud to hear
+the news, for that if any body deserved her it was Sir Rodolph;" and my
+master answered, "True, true; I must not complain of giving her up to
+_him_."
+
+Although I could not make out her history very accurately; but on
+discussing it with Puss, and putting together everything that we heard
+my master say in the garden, and John say in the kitchen, we came to the
+conclusion that Lily was gone to live at some distance in a home of her
+own; that Craven's good elder brother was her companion there; and that
+her papa was much pleased with the arrangement, though he lost her
+company. It seemed an odd affair to Pussy and me, and we purred and
+pondered over it. Puss confessed that she could not understand a
+person's leaving the house in which she was born. My views were larger.
+I could imagine being contented in any place, provided my friends were
+there too; but the separation from friends seemed an unnatural
+proceeding. However, John had distinctly said that her papa was very
+much pleased; so we decided that human beings were gifted with greater
+powers than ourselves of bearing change, and making themselves happy and
+useful under a variety of circumstances. For we had no doubt of Lily's
+being happy and useful wherever she might be. I could as soon have
+fancied myself encouraging my thieves, or Puss neglecting her mice, as
+Lily idle or out of spirits.
+
+In the course of the next day, John brought the carriage to the door
+again, and invited me to take a drive. Much flattered, I scrambled to
+the box, and sat by his side as steadily as I could, though the movement
+of the carriage was not much to my taste. Several times I could not
+resist trying to get down and run by the side; but John scolded me and
+held me fast, only indulging me with an occasional scamper when we were
+going up hill.
+
+I had not omitted a good-humoured bark to Pussy when we started, by way
+of farewell; for she came to see us off, though she was too humble to
+expect an invitation to join the party. I fully supposed that we should
+return in an hour or two, and that I should have the pleasure of telling
+her my morning's adventures. But we travelled up hill and down hill,
+through strange villages and an unknown country, and still we went on
+and on, without any symptoms of turning.
+
+In time we stopped at an inn, where my master had his dinner; and I went
+with John to the stables, and saw him feed the horses, and then followed
+him to the kitchen, where he too ate his dinner, and gave some to me.
+Then we set off on our journey again. Now I thought we were surely going
+home; but no; still straight on through new roads all day till the sun
+went down and the evening grew so dark that I could not see the country;
+and yet no talk of returning. John stopped the carriage, and lighted the
+lamps; and then on again, at the same steady pace, through the unknown
+land.
+
+Tired of travelling in the wrong direction, as it appeared to me, and
+without any object, I curled myself round at John's feet and took a long
+nap. On waking, I found myself in a scene altogether strange to me. We
+were passing through the streets of a city. I sat up and turned my head
+from side to side, quite bewildered by the difference between such a
+place and the country villages in which I had passed my life.
+
+"Ah, you may well look about you," said John; "you are not the only one
+that hasn't known what to make of London."
+
+The noise and confusion were astonishing. Though it was now so late
+that every body ought to have been asleep in their kennels, the
+innumerable lights in the houses made the night as bright as day. The
+streets were swarming with people; men and women, carriages and horses,
+even dogs and cats, met us every moment. I supposed they must be a kind
+of savages, who came out in the night like wild beasts, and I tried
+barking at them to frighten them back to their dens; but it had no
+effect, and John bade me be quiet. Indeed, I myself perceived that it
+would be a hopeless task to bark at everybody that went by. Their
+numbers were like the autumn leaves falling from the trees in our avenue
+during a high wind, and I could only suppose that next day I should find
+them all swept up in heaps at the side of the road.
+
+At last we stopped before a house; and very glad I was to be ordered to
+jump down and go in, and not at all sorry for the good supper that was
+presently given me. I was too tired even to wonder where I was, or to do
+or think of anything that night except going to sleep; and that I did
+thoroughly, after my long journey.
+
+But next day I was myself again, and up early to explore the premises.
+What I saw at first was not much to my taste. I did not admire my
+kennel; it was decidedly dull, fixed in the corner of a small courtyard
+surrounded by high walls. No trees, no river, no garden; nothing to be
+seen but a square patch of sky above the walls; nothing to be heard but
+a continual heavy rumbling outside. I soon grew tired of watching the
+clouds, and pacing round the little court; and as soon as the house was
+open, I found my way to the street door. _There_ I could certainly not
+complain of being dull. If London had seemed bustling the night before,
+what was it now by broad daylight, with the full sun shining on the
+countless passengers! I could scarcely keep still myself, with the
+excitement of watching such incessant movement.
+
+To my great disappointment, before long, John called me in, fearing that
+I might stray from the house and be lost or stolen. Of course, I obeyed
+him directly; but he perceived my vexation, and good-naturedly showed me
+a locker under the hall-window, where I might sit and study the humours
+of London at my pleasure. I thought I should never be tired of looking
+out of that window. The scene was so new and charming, that it
+reconciled me at once to my present situation, and even to the hours
+which might necessarily be passed in my ugly kennel. I really preferred
+it to the Manor.
+
+There, even while my master and Lily were living with me, we were a good
+deal left to ourselves. A few foot passengers and carts might come by
+in the course of the day, carriages and horses perhaps once in a week.
+Visitors, if they came, stayed for hours, so that I had ample time to
+make myself master of their characters, as well as those of their horses
+and dogs. Every body whom I knew at all, I knew intimately; and
+notwithstanding Pussy's hints about rash judgments, I doubt whether I
+was ever really in danger of mistaking an honest man for a thief. But if
+my old home was more favourable to tranquil reflection, certainly this
+place had the advantage of amusement and variety. Here there was no time
+for studying character, nor doing anything else _leisurely_. I scarcely
+caught a glimpse of any one, before he was out of sight. A quiet nap was
+out of the question; if I so much as winked, I lost the view of
+something. The stream of comers and goers was ever flowing. Nobody stood
+still, nobody turned back; nobody walked up and down, as my master and
+his visitors used on the terrace, while I observed their manners; here,
+as soon as one had passed, his place was taken by another. I watched for
+hours, expecting that some time or other they would all have gone by,
+and the street be left to silence and to me. But nothing of the sort
+happened; they were still going on and on, crossing each other in every
+direction; and for as many as went by, there seemed always twice as many
+yet to come.
+
+In time I grew less confused, and I went out walking with my master or
+John until I knew my way about the streets, so that I could be trusted
+to go out by myself and come safe home again.
+
+The care of the house also devolved once more upon me; and it was a more
+responsible charge than at home, on account of the immense variety of
+characters which I was obliged to understand. As to bribery, whether in
+town or country, I was always incorruptible; but I found it necessary to
+quicken my powers of observation, in order to be up to my duty in
+London. I used sometimes to single out a suspicious individual in the
+crowd, and follow him through two or three streets, till I had
+thoroughly smelt out his character; and before long, I saw all I wanted
+so quickly and accurately, that John himself was ready to submit his
+judgment to mine. I learned to know my man, and to make him know me too;
+and it would have required a daring thief to attempt our house.
+
+I own I soon thoroughly enjoyed London and its ways, and quite left off
+wishing to return to the monotony of the Manor. But though my life was
+pleasant, let nobody do me the injustice to imagine that either its
+novelty or its occupation could banish from my memory the dear little
+companion who had formed my happiness at home. Forget my Pussy I never
+did, though for a time I seemed contented without her. But, for the
+first few days, I constantly expected to see her arrive. I took it for
+granted that she would be brought to London just as I had been myself;
+and every evening, at the hour of our own arrival, I went to the
+hall-door, and sat patiently on the mat for a considerable time, fully
+expecting every moment that a carriage would stop, and that I should be
+the first to welcome my friend.
+
+But day after day passed without bringing her. Plenty of other cats were
+clambering about the roof of the house, or showing themselves against
+the sky on the top of the wall; but they were all cross and spiteful,
+setting up their backs and snarling at me if I only looked at them. I
+had no wish to make their acquaintance, for there was but one cat in the
+world that I cared for. My love was for the individual, not the race.
+Dogs were numerous in the neighbourhood, and among them were several
+intelligent, cultivated animals with whom I could be on pleasant barking
+terms; but friendship is not made in a day, and these new acquaintances
+could not make up for the want of my cat.
+
+As I grew weary of watching for her in vain, I left off waiting at the
+hall-door, and passed my evenings in thinking about her, sometimes by
+the kitchen fire, sometimes in the study, on the rug at my master's
+feet. But the more I thought about her, the more I missed her, till at
+last I quite lost all my spirits. I could not eat my food without her to
+partake of it; I scarcely cared to growl, and took no pleasure in
+barking. In short, I pined for her as I had once done for Lily; and John
+and my master asked each other every day what could be the matter with
+me.
+
+At last, finding it impossible to bear such a life any longer, I began
+to consider whether there was no remedy in my power. I knew that if my
+master objected to any thing, he did not lie on the rug and mope, but he
+worked hard to set it to rights. The more I thought about it, the more I
+perceived that mere thinking would not do; I must set to work and help
+myself. So I took my resolution, and determined to risk every thing
+rather than go on in this dawdling way, fretting my heart out.
+
+But how? Why, how did I come here myself? People had tried to bring me,
+and succeeded; why should not I try to bring Pussy? I might not succeed,
+for I did not conceal from myself the difficulties of the undertaking;
+but what great enterprise was ever accomplished without danger or
+difficulty? At any rate, it was worth the trial; and if I _did_ succeed,
+Pussy was worth every thing. So, as she would not come, I would go and
+fetch her.
+
+This once decided, it was evident that the sooner I set off the better;
+because the road not being familiar to me, it was important that I
+should travel it again before all traces of our former journey were
+lost. As yet, we had not been so long in London but that I had reason to
+think I should recognise the principal turnings, besides various objects
+on the road. I had been asleep during part of the journey, it is true;
+but I hoped that my acute sense of smell would come to my help when
+eyesight failed.
+
+And here I reflected with satisfaction upon the many advantages I had
+over my master in travelling. First, what a much better nose mine was!
+His seemed of very little use to him up in the air, out of reach of the
+ground. If he had not been able to ask his way, I am sure he could never
+have found it out by smelling. Then, how inconvenient to be obliged to
+carry so many things with him! He could not move without a portmanteau
+or a carpet-bag full of strange clothes, instead of being contented with
+one good coat on his back. I never could understand why any body should
+want more than one coat. Mine was always new, always comfortable,
+suited to all seasons, and fitting beautifully, having adapted itself to
+my growth at all stages of my life, without any attention from me. _I_
+never had any trouble with tailors, snipping and measuring, trying on
+and altering. My coat would dry on me too, whereas my poor master could
+not even jump into the river without taking his off; if it so much as
+rained, he wanted an umbrella. Then, he never seemed able to run any
+distance. For a few hundred yards it was all very well, but after that
+he began to walk; and if he made a single day's journey, he was obliged
+to be helped by a horse. Poor man! I pitied him; and yet I never for a
+moment hesitated to acknowledge him as my master; for, with all his
+detects, I felt that he was in possession of some faculty
+incomprehensible to me, but which overpowered a thousand and a thousand
+times the utmost animal superiority.
+
+But to return to my own adventures. I determined to find my way to my
+native village as a dog best might, without delay. So the next morning I
+set off, following my nose, which was my best guide, through the
+intricacies of the London streets. More than once I took a wrong turn;
+but after going a little way up the street, I always discovered my
+mistake, and retraced my steps.
+
+Once I met two gentlemen whom I knew. One asked the other if I was not
+my master's dog; the other looked round and called, "Captain! Captain!"
+I was very near wagging my tail and looking up at the familiar sound,
+but I fortunately recollected myself in time. As he was not my master, I
+was not bound to be obedient; so I held my ears and tail still by a
+strong determination, and trotted on, taking no notice.
+
+Another time, as I was sniffing the ground where several streets
+branched off, I heard an ill-toned voice say, "There's a dog that has
+lost his master."
+
+"Fine dog, too," said another; "there will be a good reward advertised
+for him."
+
+"Humph, there's more to be made by him than that," replied the first;
+and as I looked up at him, I recognised the very man whom I had formerly
+prevented from breaking into my master's country house. I growled
+fiercely; and if he had attempted to approach me, I was prepared for a
+spring at his throat.
+
+"He seems to have a spite against you; best leave him alone," said the
+other. And the two turned away, evidently aware that it would not be
+safe to meddle with me; and I once more pursued my journey in quiet.
+
+Having my own reasons for not wishing to attract attention, I jostled
+against as few passengers as possible, and did my utmost to keep clear
+of inquisitive dogs or arrogant horses, so that I met with few
+obstacles, and before mid-day arrived safely at the outskirts of London.
+Then my way became much plainer; a country road, with hedges and fields
+on each side, was easily tracked; and I could hold up my head in comfort
+as I ran along at a good pace, instead of keeping my nose close to the
+ground for fear of losing my way.
+
+I came to a place where four roads met, and there, though but for a few
+moments, I was perplexed. There was a sign-post, but that was nothing to
+me; it might have been useful to my poor master, but to me it was only
+one of his many encumbrances, which were superseded by my nose.
+
+So I followed my nose up one of the roads; it would not do. Up a second
+and a third; still my nose refused assent. As there was but one road
+more, I had no further choice; so I troubled my nose no more, but
+galloped joyfully ahead without any difficulty on the subject, wondering
+whether my master would have found the way by his reason as surely as I
+by my instinct.
+
+As the day went on, I began to grow uncommonly hungry; that is to say,
+hungry for _me_, who had never yet known what it was to want a meal.
+Accustomed to regular daily food as often as I required it, I do not
+suppose that in my comfortable life I ever knew what real hunger was,
+such hunger as is felt by poor creatures with but scanty food for one
+day, and uncertain even of _that_ for the next. But I felt that I should
+like my dinner; and, for the first time in my life, was called upon to
+find it for myself.
+
+And, really, when a person has been accustomed to see set before him
+every day, at his own hour, on his own platter, a supply of bread and
+meat nicely mixed, with perhaps some pudding to finish it, and no
+trouble required on his part but to eat it tidily, and say "Thank you"
+after his fashion, it is no small puzzle suddenly to be obliged to
+provide his own dinner from beginning to end--catching, cooking, and
+serving it up. There are more in the world than I who would know how to
+do nothing but eat it. If I had been a wild dog, used to the habits of
+savage life, I might have hunted down some smaller animal as wild as
+myself, torn it to pieces, and devoured it raw; but I was a civilised
+creature, so altered by education, that in my hunting days I always
+brought the game to my master instead of eating it myself; and here, on
+the London high road, there was not even game to be caught. I really
+was quite at a loss what to do.
+
+In course of time I came up with a traveller sitting under a hedge,
+eating a lump of bread and cheese. I would not have accepted bread and
+cheese at home if it had been offered me, but now I stopped in front of
+the eater and began to beg for some, licking my lips, and wagging my
+tail in my most insinuating manner.
+
+He threw me a scrap of coarse bread, saying, "There's for you; but I
+dare say you are too well fed to eat it."
+
+His supposition would have been true enough the day before; but hunger
+cures daintiness, and now I was glad of such a mouthful. I bolted it in
+an instant, and looked for more. He threw me one other crust, saying
+that was all he could spare; and, finishing the rest himself, went on
+his way, leaving me as hungry as ever.
+
+By and by, in passing through a village, I came to a butcher's shop. The
+butcher was not in sight, and meat was spread in the most tempting
+manner on the board.
+
+"How easily," thought I, "I could steal that nice raw chop, and run away
+with it! Nobody could see me, and I do not believe any body could catch
+me."
+
+_Steal it_--the thought startled me. Brought up from my earliest
+puppyhood in the strictest principles of honesty; able, as I imagined,
+to see the best-stocked larder, or the most amply-supplied table,
+without even wishing to touch what was not my own;--was I now, on the
+very first temptation, the first time in my life that I had ever been
+really hungry, to forget all I had been taught, and to become a _thief_?
+Was it only the fear of blows that had kept me honest? Was my honesty
+worthy the name, if I was only honest when I had no temptation to be
+otherwise? I was ashamed of myself, and turning from the shop, passed on
+with drooping ears.
+
+Presently I met with a dog so extra fat as to show plainly that he had
+never gone without his dinner, and yet he was growling over a bone as if
+he had been starving. On looking more closely at him, I perceived that
+he was in possession of two bones, either of them enough for one dog;
+but he was unable to make use of one, for fear of the other's being
+taken from him. So there he lay, with his paws upon both, growling
+instead of enjoying himself. He was a larger dog than I, but not nearly
+so strong, being grown helpless and unwieldly through long habits of
+greediness and laziness. I saw that I could easily master him and take
+one of his bones by brute force, and at first I felt inclined to help
+myself by this means. I thought I had a good right so to do. I actually
+wanted the necessaries of life, while he was revelling in superfluous
+luxury. Was I not justified, nay more, was I not bound in common sense
+and justice to take from him what he did not want, and give it to myself
+who did want it? Even if I robbed him of one of his bones, I should
+leave him as much as I took away.
+
+_Robbed_--another awkward word! I paused again. Assault and robbery were
+perhaps not so mean as sneaking theft, but were they more allowable? The
+bones were his own, his property; given to him by some one who had a
+right to dispose of them; and though at this moment I might wish for a
+more equal distribution, I had sense enough to know that it would be a
+bad state of things if every dog were to seize upon every neighbouring
+dog's bones at his own discretion. It might suit me at this moment, but
+to-morrow a stronger dog might think that _I_ had too much, and insist
+upon my relinquishing half of _my_ dinner. Who was to be the judge?
+Every dog would differ in opinion as to how much was his own fair share,
+and how much might be left to his neighbour. No large dog would allow
+another to dine while he himself was hungry; and it would end by the
+strongest getting all the bones, while the poor, inferior curs were
+worse off than ever. So I determined to respect the rights of property,
+for the sake of small dogs as well as for my own.
+
+After all, starvation was not inevitable. It might be possible to get a
+dinner without fighting for it. I sat down opposite my new acquaintance,
+and entered into civil conversation with him. I found him much more
+friendly than I expected. He had certainly been accustomed to more
+indulgence and idleness than was good for him, but his natural
+disposition was not entirely spoilt. He was the peculiar pet of a lady,
+who thought it kindness to cram him from morning till night with food
+that disagreed with him, to provide him with no occupation, and to
+deprive him of healthy exercise, so that no wonder he had grown lazy and
+selfish; but his native spirit was not entirely extinguished, and he
+assured me that a bare bone to growl over, and a little comfortable rain
+and mud to disport himself in like a dog, were still the greatest treats
+that could be offered to him. His temper had been farther soured by the
+spite and envy of dogs around him, who, less petted themselves, and not
+aware how little his petting contributed to his comfort, grudged him
+every thing that he possessed, and lost no opportunity of snapping and
+snarling at him.
+
+When I reflected on the difference between his circumstances and my own,
+I felt more inclined to pity than to blame him; but though I condoled
+with him kindly, and whined in sympathy, I took care to give him the
+best advice in my power, and to suggest such changes in his own conduct
+as might tend to better his lot.
+
+He listened with patience and candour, and showed his gratitude by
+treating me with the most cordial hospitality. He gave me an excellent
+bone, and offered to share his kennel with me; but after my dinner and a
+nap I was so thoroughly refreshed, that I preferred continuing my
+journey. He pressed me to call on him in my way back, provided I
+returned alone; but honestly confessed that if I was accompanied by a
+cat, he feared that the force of habit might be too strong to allow of
+his being as polite to her as he could wish. Remembering my own early
+prejudices, I had no right to blame him; and we parted excellent
+friends, though I declined his invitation.
+
+I met with no more adventures or difficulties. Even my night's lodging
+gave me no trouble; for when it was growing dark, and I felt too tired
+to run any farther, I espied a heap of straw thrown out by the
+stable-door of a roadside inn, and I soon scratched and smoothed it into
+as comfortable a bed as dog need wish. By break of day I was on my
+travels again; and being now near my native village, in a road of which
+I knew every step, I had no further perplexity, and by breakfast-time
+arrived at my old home.
+
+It had never occurred to me that any body would be surprised to see me.
+Having always met with a hearty welcome, I expected one as a matter of
+course; but I certainly never anticipated being received with a shout of
+astonishment, and to this day I cannot understand why they were all so
+amazed. But so it was. When the gardener opened the gate and saw me
+sitting outside, he started as if I had been a strange dog going to fly
+at him; and instead of speaking to me, began calling as loud as he could
+to his wife:
+
+"Peggy! why, Peggy, make haste, I say. Here's the dog! How did he ever
+come here?"
+
+The old lady came bustling along at double her usual speed, and I
+thought she would immediately explain my appearance; but she seemed even
+more surprised than her husband; she fairly screamed.
+
+"Well to be sure!" exclaimed she as usual, as soon as she had recovered
+her breath; "well to be sure! Did any body ever see such a thing? How
+can he have come? Do you think master is on the road?"
+
+"I'll run down to the turnpike and see," answered her husband; and off
+he set, without bestowing a word upon me; his wife meanwhile, with her
+apron thrown over her head, straining her eyes to look after him. I
+wagged my tail, and patted her with my paw, and did my best to make her
+understand that I was there on my own account; but her head was too full
+of fancies to attend to the reality, and she persisted in looking out
+for my master who was not coming, and neglecting me who was there under
+her eyes. So I left her to find out the state of the case as she could,
+and turned my steps towards the house, where I hoped to meet a friend,
+who would think nothing so natural as my being at her side.
+
+I peeped in at the kitchen window, and there sat my Pussy, in her old
+place before the fire, looking just as when I left her--the neatest,
+whitest, softest, and gentlest of creatures. _She_ was not surprised to
+see me. She winked and blinked a little, as if she was dreaming of me at
+that moment, and was afraid to open her eyes more than half-way, lest
+the dream should vanish; but at last she opened them altogether, and the
+dream turned to reality. Then, had we not a happy meeting!
+
+There was much to tell on both sides before we could properly discuss
+the grand object of my coming, and our time was a good deal taken up by
+a constant succession of visitors; not dogs or cats, as might have been
+expected, but boys and girls, men and women, friends of the servants,
+all pouring in to see _me_. From the time that the gardener and his wife
+had satisfied themselves that my master was not coming with me, they
+seemed to consider my arrival stranger than ever, and to think it
+necessary to inform every body of the circumstances,--though I should
+certainly have supposed there would be more wonder in seeing two persons
+than one. Pussy did not approve of so much company, as she always
+disliked to be stared at; I, being of a less retiring turn of mind, was
+perhaps rather flattered by the notice; but, by the time evening came,
+even I was glad to have the house quiet. Then we lay by the fire, and
+explained all our feelings to each other.
+
+I described to my friend how unhappy I had been without her, and how
+amidst all the pleasures of London I had languished for her company,
+till I could bear my loneliness no longer; and I entreated her, for my
+sake, to relinquish all her present habits, and to try a new life and a
+new home.
+
+She heard me with much sympathy, and owned that she too had been
+unhappy; and that, notwithstanding the placid exterior which she had
+thought it right to keep up, she had missed me quite as much as I missed
+her. But she did not at once, as I hoped, agree eagerly to my proposal
+of accompanying me to London. She hesitated. The journey seemed an
+arduous undertaking. What strange dogs she might meet! what showers of
+rain! what obstacles of all kinds, that had never suggested themselves
+to me!
+
+I strenuously combated all her objections, trying to convince her that
+the journey which seemed so formidable would turn out a mere
+pleasure-excursion. I did not mind getting wet myself; but as she did, I
+was glad to assure her that there was plenty of shelter in case of rain.
+Indeed, one might suppose that the whole road had been laid out for the
+express convenience of cat travellers; there were such hedges, trees,
+stiles, sheltered nooks, and sunny banks in every direction. Then as for
+strange dogs, was I not there to protect her? was I not a match for any
+dog? and did she not know that I would gladly shed the last drop of my
+blood in her cause, besides enjoying a fight on my own account? She
+sighed, but her sigh was a nearer approach to a purr than before, though
+her objections were far from being finished.
+
+She owned that she dreaded change. She had her own habits and her own
+duties; she had been used all her life to that same house, with its
+cellars and its pantries under her especial charge, and she was afraid
+that in a new place she might be idle and uncomfortable.
+
+This seemed to me a most unreasonable punctilio. I allowed that she
+might fairly prefer the country, but I could not for a moment admit that
+a town life need be idle. Did she suppose there were no mice in London?
+I could answer for the contrary. The servants were perpetually
+complaining not only of mice, but of rats; and only the day before I
+started, I had heard them declare that they could not do without a cat
+any longer. A most active life was open to her. The only danger was,
+that she might find too much to do, and that her love of neatness and
+comfort might be revolted by the dark crannies and gloomy cellars in
+which she had to seek her work. But as for being _useless_, that was
+indeed an idle fear any where for any body who wished to work.
+
+She listened attentively, and began to purr in a more decided manner.
+
+"Still," said she, "I am afraid they will miss me here."
+
+"No doubt," I replied; "but their loss can be remedied. A house like
+this can be kept in order by a very inferior cat to yourself; and after
+all, you are cherished here chiefly because it was Lily's wish. Peggy
+can easily find another kitten; and you know she has often said that
+white cats were not to her taste, and she should much prefer a tabby."
+
+"True, true," murmured Puss; and seeing that she was gradually
+softening, I continued to place every inducement before her in the
+strongest light. I represented the present unguarded state of the sugar,
+candles, preserves, &c., in a manner to touch the feelings of any
+domestic cat, and dwelt at some length on the improvement that must take
+place in the house under her vigilant superintendence. And I finally
+crowned my persuasions with the tenderest appeal to her affection for
+me, drawing a vivid picture of the difference to me and to my happiness
+that would result from her companionship. Pussy had for some time been
+wavering, and before I had finished my harangue she purred a full
+consent.
+
+I need not describe my delight at thus gaining the great object of my
+life. Some feelings should not be made public property. My happiness was
+not of a nature to be boisterous, but it was such as to satisfy Pussy
+that she had decided aright.
+
+At break of day we began our grand adventure, as we were anxious to lose
+no time; and we had been so well fed over-night, that we could defy
+hunger for the next twenty-four hours. When I had set out on my
+solitary journey, I had felt very easy about my accommodations and mode
+of travelling; but now that I had my less hardy companion, many cares
+crowded on my mind, and I pondered so profoundly over every arrangement,
+that Puss seemed the most cheerful and courageous of the two. Indeed,
+from the moment she agreed to my request, she generously gave to the
+winds all her former objections, and thought of nothing but helping me,
+and giving as little trouble as possible herself.
+
+We passed through our native village quietly. All curious observers had
+visited us the night before; and our friendship was so well known, that
+the sight of us together attracted no notice beyond a few kind words;
+but on emerging into the great world of the London road, we were obliged
+to hold a consultation upon our proceedings. Though our object was the
+same, our views of the best means of attaining it did not quite agree;
+Pussy's idea being to avoid fighting, mine to be prepared for it.
+Doubtless a combination of both principles was our true policy.
+
+We reconnoitred our route. Fields on each side were divided from the
+road by hedges, and there was a raised path between the hedge and the
+road. We decided that I should run along the open path, looking out for
+every danger, while Pussy, as much out of sight as possible, crept
+along the field on the other side of the hedge. Though this arrangement
+separated us, it was by far the safest; the thick green hedge hid the
+cat from observation, and there were plenty of gaps through which we
+could take an opportunity of peeping at each other, unmarked by any one
+else. Moreover, the fields had attractions for Pussy besides mere
+security; she could catch birds and field-mice, and thus secure a
+comfortable meal at any moment.
+
+In this manner we proceeded pleasantly for many miles; I trotting
+steadily onwards, and Puss creeping behind the hedge at her usual
+stealthy pace. When prudence permitted, we enlivened our journey by
+various agreeable diversions. Sometimes on coming to a paling or a wall,
+Puss jumped up with her usual activity, and ran along the top.
+Occasionally we made a halt, while she climbed a pleasant tree, and I
+reposed on the grass under its shade. Or she would rest on a sunny bank,
+while I amused myself by watching any passing carriages and horses in
+the road. Once or twice we left the beaten path in search of water, but
+we were careful not to wander far out of our way.
+
+In going through one village, we observed some trellis-work on the gable
+end of a house, affording facilities of ascent quite irresistible to a
+cat of spirit. Puss was on the perpendicular wall in an instant,
+climbing hand over hand, or rather paw over paw, till she reached the
+roof. There she revelled in her favourite exaltation, and enjoyed
+herself thoroughly in darting over the slates, and making excursions up
+and down the chimney stacks. As there were several houses adjoining, she
+had the opportunity of a considerable promenade along the gutters, very
+satisfactory till she came to the end of the row; but there,
+unfortunately, she found no means of coming down again. There was no
+trellis; and a blank wall, without a single projection to afford a
+footing, was beyond even her dexterity. There was nothing to be done but
+to retrace her steps, I meanwhile running along the footpath, and
+looking up with some anxiety.
+
+But we were not obliged to go back very far. The middle house was an
+inn, with a sign-post before it, from which hung a picture of a red lion
+rampant,--an ugly beast, and far from royal. I thought I would have
+shaken him to pieces if he had been alive, but under present
+circumstances I was very glad to see him. Puss sprang from the roof to
+the cross-beam which supported him, and from thence easily scrambled
+down his post to the ground. Very glad I was to have her at my side
+again, and to make our way through the village unmolested.
+
+[Illustration: THE JOURNEY TO LONDON. Page 84]
+
+All these freaks had rather hindered us, as people cannot go out of
+their way for amusement without wasting more time than they reckon upon;
+and I now urged Puss to resist such temptations, and to keep up a steady
+walk on her side of the hedge. Not being able to climb myself, I had no
+sympathy with her great love of the art; and, in fact, I had sometimes
+considered her power of ascending heights, and finding footing in places
+inaccessible to me, as a fault in her character. But as I did not wish
+to be ill-natured and disagreeable, I indulged her taste, though
+believing it to be useless, if not dangerous, and often persuading her
+to keep to the beaten path in every thing.
+
+But I thought myself wiser than I was, and I had to learn by experience
+that every different nature and endowment may have its peculiar
+advantages. Before we were out of sight of that village, the very talent
+which I had despised was the means of saving Pussy's life.
+
+The hedgerow, which had hitherto been our safeguard and screen from
+impertinent observation, had come to an end; the fields were separated
+from the road only by an open ditch, and young trees enclosed in palings
+were planted at regular intervals along the path. We were trotting
+leisurely, thinking of no mischief, when at a turn in the road there
+suddenly darted out upon us a fierce and powerful mastiff. To leap the
+ditch and be at Pussy's side was the work of a moment both for him and
+for me, though with very different intentions; he to assail, I to defend
+her. The attack was so sudden, that Puss had not time to use her weapons
+to any purpose; she just managed to give one spirited claw at his nose
+with a loud hiss, and then sprang faster and higher than I had ever seen
+her spring before, and gained the top of the paling just in time to
+escape his seizure. If she had not been able to jump, she would have
+been a dead cat. Even then she was not quite out of his reach, and he
+flew after her; but I threw myself upon him while she bounded to the
+little tree, and climbed its branches till she gained a place of safety.
+
+Then the mastiff and I had a battle royal. The very recollection of it
+at this day does me good. We were all in the highest state of
+excitement. Puss in the tree, her back showing high above her ears, and
+her tail swelled to the size of a fox's brush, puffing and spitting at
+her enemy like a snake or a steam-engine; the mastiff running round the
+paling on his hind legs, banging up against it on every side, and
+barking and howling with rage; I, no less furious, howling and barking
+at him in return, and galloping round the tree as wildly as he did.
+Determined to try every thing, he turned to dash round the other way,
+and we came full upon each other. I need not describe the consequences.
+"Greek" may "meet Greek," and I leave the result to the learned; but if
+any body had ever doubted whether when dog meets dog, "then comes the
+tug of war," now was the time to convince themselves. We certainly did
+tug at each other most decidedly. Our strength and courage were so
+nearly equal, that for some time the victory was doubtful. Again and
+again each hero, bitten, scratched, and bruised, rolled in the dust, and
+rose up again shaking ears and coat, ready to rush upon his adversary
+with undiminished spirit. The final issue seemed to depend entirely upon
+the power of holding out longest. As I scorn to boast, I candidly
+confess that I was many times ready to ask for quarter and own myself
+beaten: indeed, if I had only been fighting on my own account, I must
+have yielded; but the goodness of my cause supported me, and in defence
+of my friend I performed exploits of valour that I did not know to be in
+my nature. At last I had the satisfaction to see my enemy fairly turn
+round, and with drooping head, and tail between his legs, sneak off to
+his own home in a very different state of mind and body from that in
+which he left it. I sent after him a bark of triumph that made the woods
+re-echo; but my best reward was in my Pussy's thanks and praises, and
+the happy consciousness of being her successful champion.
+
+I required a little rest after my exertions; but before long we were on
+the move again, and met with no further impediments till we arrived at
+our resting-place for the night. This was under the shelter of an empty
+barn, rather infested by rats, so that Puss found both food and lodging.
+Tastes differ: I was glad of a comfortable roof and a warm corner; but
+though Puss pressed me to partake of her provision, I preferred going
+without a meal for once in my life to sharing a rat.
+
+We were up and dressed time enough for the rising sun to meet us on our
+road. I have few more "incidents of travel" to recount; indeed, beyond a
+little difficulty in crossing a puddle or two without wetting my
+comrade's feet, or dirtying her white stockings, we arrived at the
+outskirts of London without hindrance.
+
+But I feared that it would not be so easy to creep unobserved through
+the busy streets, and I grew very uncomfortable when I found myself and
+my companion in the midst of the throng. I was anxious to conceal my
+fears from Puss, lest I should alarm her also; but her penetration saw
+through my forced cheerfulness, and obliged me to confess my
+apprehensions. True to her determination of making the best of every
+thing, she was more courageous than I. With her usual good sense, she
+pointed out to me that the greater the surrounding numbers, the better
+the chance of any individuals passing unnoticed; that it was the idle
+who hindered or molested others; and that this multitude of people,
+intent upon objects of their own, would have neither time nor
+inclination to annoy us.
+
+"I know by experience, my dear Captain," continued she, "that when I am
+properly occupied with my own rats, I have no temptation to interfere
+with my neighbour's mice. It is when I have been sitting too long
+purring in the sunshine with nothing to do, that I am in danger of being
+mischievous or troublesome."
+
+"True," I answered; "I can bear witness to that myself: and I am not
+afraid of the industrious people, if they noticed us, it would be
+kindly. But these are not _all_ busy,--some may be at leisure to worry
+us; and I scarcely know how we are to pass unobserved; I fear we are
+very remarkable. At home you know how much was said about us."
+
+"Yes, _at home_," she replied, with a significant curl of her whiskers,
+"but at home we stood alone; there was no one to compare us with. I
+fancy that many are thought great personages in their own little
+village, who would be quite unnoticed elsewhere. I hope that may be our
+case."
+
+"You _hope_!" exclaimed I, almost with a bark; for in spite of my fears,
+I by no means admired Pussy's modest style of consolation. Mortification
+got the better of prudence, and I felt that I would rather fight every
+day and all day long than not be thought worth fighting with.
+
+"I hope it for myself," she answered; "but I do not expect you to be of
+the same opinion. I am content to shun danger and avoid blame; but it is
+your nature to meet peril and to court praise."
+
+"You are rather inconsistent," interrupted I, somewhat nettled: "one of
+your objections to coming with me was, that you thought you could be of
+no use in London; and now you are wishing to be altogether unnoticed."
+
+"I do not see any contradiction," she replied; "one may be useful
+without being conspicuous. If I can fill my own little post quietly, so
+as to please you and my master, I am content that no one else should
+even know of my existence. My climbing exploits are only for my own
+pleasure, as you know. I have no ambition."
+
+"Such a life would not satisfy me at all," I answered.
+
+"So much the better," said Puss; "there would be few great things done
+in the world if no one were more energetic or daring than I. It is a
+capital thing that there should be such as you, able and willing to
+defend the weak, and to stand up for the right without fear of
+consequences. It is your proper part, and I am truly grateful to you for
+acting it so nobly as you did yesterday."
+
+This view of the matter soothed my feelings; and for the present, at any
+rate, I was glad that Pussy's retiring disposition should have its way.
+The more she crept through by-ways and slunk into corners, the better I
+was pleased, for I was too fond of her to wish to see her in danger for
+the sake of my own honour and glory.
+
+So with care and caution we went on our way, taking every means to avoid
+not only dogs and boys, but even older and wiser beings; and at last,
+under lamp-posts and door-posts, through kennels and gutters, now
+creeping along the ledge of a wall, now hiding under the shelter of a
+friendly porch, always watching each other at every step we took, we
+arrived at our own door.
+
+All necessity for caution being now happily at an end, I indulged myself
+in a bark loud enough to rouse the house, though too joyous to alarm it.
+Presently our good friend John appeared in the area, talking to himself
+while going about his work. We heard him say in a hesitating manner, "I
+could not help almost fancying that I heard my poor Captain's bark; but
+I know it is nothing but my folly, always thinking of him. He's been and
+got himself stolen by some of those London dog-stealers. _I_ shall never
+see him again, poor fellow."
+
+I barked again. John looked up, and there I stood, only too happy to be
+able to contradict him. Extraordinary, that knowing me as he did, he
+should have thought me capable of deserting my best friends and letting
+myself be enticed away by a dog-stealer! I hoped I had more sense than
+that.
+
+John said not another word, but rushed up stairs and threw the
+street-door wide open. In my rapture at meeting him I forgot all
+ceremony; and standing bolt upright on my hind-legs, with my fore-paws
+on his shoulders, I licked his face all over. But he was too glad to see
+me to take offence at my familiarity, and patted my head and returned my
+caresses with cordiality equal to my own.
+
+At first he did not see my little fellow-traveller, who, in her modest
+reluctance to be intrusive, held back during the rough greetings between
+John and me. But in proper time she felt it due to herself to come
+forward and assert her presence; so, setting her tail bolt upright like
+a standard, she began pacing softly backwards and forwards, purring
+affectionately, and rubbing herself against John's legs at every turn.
+
+"Well, Pussy," said John, as he stooped to stroke her head, "it would
+take a good many human creatures to surprise me as much as you two dumb
+animals have done. But come in. Come, Captain, my boy; come, little
+Puss."
+
+So saying, he ushered us across the hall to our master's study, and
+tapped at the door.
+
+"Come in," called our master.
+
+John opened the door, and stood there without speaking a word, while
+Puss and I walked forwards to our master's chair, she purring and I
+wagging my tail as usual, expecting him to say something civil, but not
+prepared for astonishment in our wise master. I thought we had left all
+that sort of thing behind with Peggy. But my master looked up and down,
+at John and us, us and John again, several times in silence. At last he
+said, "It is the most extraordinary thing I ever saw. How and when did
+they come?"
+
+"Not five minutes ago, sir," answered John; "both together, as you see;
+and to judge from their dusty look, they must have walked all the way."
+
+"No doubt," replied my master. "On what day did we miss the dog?"
+
+"Four days ago, sir, after I told you how he was moping. He must have
+found his way all alone to the Manor, and brought the other back with
+him. It beats every thing that ever _I_ heard."
+
+"He must, indeed. Wonderful!" said my master.
+
+"To be sure I did," thought I. "Where is the wonder?"
+
+But as we were very hungry, we left John and our master to express their
+surprise to each other, while we turned our steps towards the kitchen.
+Even there, before we got any dinner, we were doomed to encounter a
+sharp fire of exclamations from the servants; and really such incessant
+expressions of amazement began to be almost mortifying. Approbation is
+pleasant enough, but astonishment gives the idea that people had not
+thought one capable of even one's own little good deeds. However, we
+bore it all with good humour, and were soon caressed and fed to our
+complete satisfaction.
+
+The rest of our story may be told in a few words. Puss was soon
+domesticated on her London hearth, and pursuing her avocations with her
+customary skill and spirit. She was a universal favourite, though just
+at first she had to endure a little gossip about her history and
+appearance; some pronouncing her to be very pretty, others seeing
+nothing particular in her worth so much trouble. But in due time her
+reputation was firmly established as the prettiest cat and the best
+mouser in the neighbourhood.
+
+While she made herself useful in her department, I was not idle in mine;
+and I think I may safely say that no house could boast of a more
+faithful and vigilant guardian. It was difficult to determine which of
+us was most useful to our master; Puss in preserving his property from
+"rats and mice and such small deer," or I, in keeping off larger
+depredators. Our joint business was to take care of the house, and
+thorough care we took, and thoroughly were our services appreciated and
+rewarded. Welcome guests on kitchen hearthstone or on drawing-room rug,
+treated as pets by the servants, as friends by our master, and agreeable
+company by his acquaintances, no animals have ever passed a happier
+life. Lily has often been to see us; and next to the pleasure of being
+once more caressed by her own hand, was that of hearing our story told
+to her husband by her own lips, and our friendship mentioned with
+approbation to her little son.
+
+       *        *       *       *       *
+
+It may seem absurd to suppose that a human being can profit by the
+history of a dog; but I believe that no creature is too insignificant,
+and no event too trivial, to teach some lesson to those capable of
+learning it; and a moral to this little story may be found in the
+advantage of making the best of untoward circumstances, and of
+cultivating kindness and goodwill in place of prejudice and dislike. In
+short, to any, small or great, who have hitherto found or fancied their
+companions uncongenial, I would propose Puss and Captain as an example
+of a new and better method of
+
+"LIVING LIKE CAT AND DOG."
+
+
+THE END.
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+<p>Title: Cat and Dog</p>
+<p>       Memoirs of Puss and the Captain</p>
+<p>Author: Julia Charlotte Maitland</p>
+<p>Release Date: March 21, 2007  [eBook #20868]</p>
+<p>Language: English</p>
+<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p>
+<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAT AND DOG***</p>
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+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 349px;">
+<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="349" height="399" alt="Cover" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h1>CAT &amp; DOG<br />
+OR<br />
+PUSS &amp; THE CAPTAIN</h1>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 397px;">
+<img src="images/img1.jpg" width="397" height="500" alt="CAPTAIN AND THE LOOKING-GLASS. Page 9" title="" />
+<span class="caption">CAPTAIN AND THE LOOKING-GLASS. <small><a href="#Page_9">Page 9</a></small></span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="padding">
+<h2>CAT AND DOG;</h2>
+
+<p class='center'>OR,</p>
+
+<h3>MEMOIRS OF PUSS AND THE CAPTAIN.</h3>
+
+<p class='center'>A Story founded on Fact.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="padding">
+<p class='center'>BY THE AUTHOR OF</p>
+
+<p class='center'>
+"THE DOLL AND HER FRIENDS," "LETTERS FROM MADRAS,"<br />
+"HISTORICAL ACTING CHARADES," ETC.<br />
+</p></div>
+<div class="padding">
+<p class='center'>Fifth Edition.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRISON WEIR.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="padding">
+<p class='center'>
+LONDON:<br />
+GRIFFITH AND FARRAN,<br />
+<small>LATE GRANT AND GRIFFITH, SUCCESSORS TO NEWBERY AND HARRIS,</small><br />
+CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.<br />
+<small>MDCCCLVIII.</small><br />
+</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Note" id="Note"></a><span class="smcap">Note</span>.</h2>
+
+<p>The Author begs to assure her young readers that the principal
+circumstances on which this little story is founded are true. The
+friendship between the two animals, the dog's journey home, and return
+in company with his friend, are facts which occurred within her own
+knowledge.</p>
+
+<div class="padding">
+<p class="center">
+<small>LONDON:<br />
+SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS,<br />
+CHANDOS STREET.</small></p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg&nbsp;3]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CAT_AND_DOG" id="CAT_AND_DOG"></a>CAT AND DOG;</h2>
+
+<p class="center">OR,</p>
+
+<h2>PUSS AND THE CAPTAIN.</h2>
+
+
+<p>I am going to relate the history of a pleasant and prosperous life; for
+though a few misfortunes may have befallen me, my pleasures have far
+exceeded them, and especially I have been treated with such constant
+cordiality and kindness as would not fail to ensure the happiness of man
+or beast. But though I have no reason to complain of my destiny, it is a
+remarkable fact, that my principal happiness has been produced by
+conforming myself to unfavourable circumstances, and reconciling myself
+to an unnatural fate.</p>
+
+<p>Nature herself did well by me. I am a fine setter, of a size that a
+Newfoundland dog could not despise, and a beauty that a Blenheim spaniel
+might envy. With a white and brown curly coat, drooping ears, bushy
+tail, a delicate pink nose, and good-natured<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg&nbsp;4]</a></span> brown eyes, active,
+strong, honest, gentle, and obedient, I have always felt a conscious
+pride and pleasure in being a thoroughly well-bred dog.</p>
+
+<p>My condition in life was peculiarly comfortable. I was brought up in an
+old manor-house inhabited by a gentleman and his daughter, with several
+respectable and good-natured servants. My education was conducted with
+care, and from my earliest youth I had the advantage of an introduction
+into good society. I was not, indeed, allowed to come much into the
+drawing-room, as my master said I was too large for a drawing-room dog;
+but I had the range of the lower part of the house, and constant
+admittance to his study, where I was welcome to share his fireside while
+he read the newspapers or received visitors. I took great interest in
+his friends; and by means of listening to their conversation, watching
+them from under my eyelids while they thought I was asleep, and smelling
+them carefully, I could form a sufficiently just estimate of their
+characters to regulate my own conduct towards them. Though a polite dog
+both by birth and breeding, I was too honest and independent to show the
+same respect and cordiality towards those whom I liked and those whom I
+despised; and though very grateful for the smallest favours from<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg&nbsp;5]</a></span>
+persons I esteemed, no flattery, caresses, or benefactions could induce
+me to strike up an intimacy with one who did not please me. If I had
+been able to speak, I should have expressed my opinions without
+ceremony; and it often surprised me that my master, who could say what
+he pleased, did not quarrel with people, and tell them all their faults
+openly. I thought, if I had been he, I would have had many a fight with
+intruders, to whom he was not only civil himself, but compelled me to be
+so too. I have often observed that it appears proper for human beings to
+observe a kind of respect even towards persons they dislike; a line of
+conduct which <i>brutes</i> cannot understand.</p>
+
+<p>However, I was not without my own methods of showing my sentiments. If I
+felt indifferent or contemptuous towards a person entering the room, I
+merely opened one eye and yawned at him. If he attempted any
+compliments, calling me "Good Captain," "Fine Dog," and trying to pat
+me, I shook off his hand, and rising from my rug, turned once round, and
+curling my tail under me, sank down again to my repose without taking
+any further notice of him. But occasionally my master admitted visitors
+whom I considered as such highly improper acquaintances for him, that I
+could scarcely<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg&nbsp;6]</a></span> restrain my indignation. I knew I must not bite them,
+though, in my own opinion, it would have been by far the best thing to
+do; I did not dare so much as to bark at them, for my master objected
+even to that expression of feeling: but I could not resist receiving
+them with low growls; during their visit I never took my eyes off them
+for a moment, and I made a point of following them to the door, and
+seeing them safe off the premises. Others, on the contrary, I regarded
+with the highest confidence and esteem. Their visits gave almost as much
+pleasure to me as to my master, and I took pains to show my friendship
+by every means in my power; leaving the fireside to meet them, wagging
+my tail, shaking a paw with them the moment I was asked, and sitting
+with my nose resting on their lap.</p>
+
+<p>But I took no unwelcome liberties; for I was gifted with a particular
+power of discriminating between those who really liked me, and those who
+only tolerated me out of politeness. Upon the latter I never willingly
+intruded, though I have been sometimes obliged to submit to a
+hypocritical pat bestowed on me for the sake of my young mistress; but a
+real friend of dogs I recognised at a glance, whether lady or gentleman,
+so that I could safely<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg&nbsp;7]</a></span> place my paw in the whitest hand, or rest my
+head against the gayest dress, without fear of a repulse.</p>
+
+<p>The person I loved best in the world was my master; or rather, I should
+say, he was the person for whom I had the highest respect. My love was
+bestowed in at least an equal degree upon my young mistress, his
+daughter Lily, in whose every action I took a deep interest.</p>
+
+<p>She was a graceful, gentle little creature, whom I could have knocked
+down and trampled upon in a minute; but though my strength was so
+superior to hers, there was no one whom I was so ready to obey. A word
+or look from Lily managed me completely; and her gentle warning of "Oh,
+Captain," has often recalled me to good manners when I was on the point
+of breaking out into fury against some obnoxious person. Willing subject
+as I was, I yet looked upon myself in some manner as her guardian and
+protector, and it would have fared ill with man or beast who had
+attempted to molest her.</p>
+
+<p>As I mentioned before, I was not allowed to come much into the
+drawing-room; but Lily found many opportunities of noticing me. I always
+sat at the foot of the stairs to watch for her as she came down to the
+breakfast-room, when she used to pat my head and say, "How do you do,
+good Captain?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg&nbsp;8]</a></span> Nice dog," as she passed. Then I wagged my tail, and was
+very happy. I think I should have moped half the day if I had missed
+Lily's morning greeting. After breakfast she came into the garden, and
+brought me pieces of toast, and gave me lessons in what she considered
+clever ways of eating. I should have preferred snapping at her gifts and
+bolting them down my own throat in my own way; but, to please Lily, I
+learned to sit patiently watching the most tempting buttered crust on
+the ground under my nose, when she said, "Trust, Captain!" never
+dreaming of touching it till she gave the word of command, "Now it is
+paid for;" when I ate it in a genteel and deliberate manner. Having
+achieved such a conquest over myself, I thought my education was
+complete; but Lily had further refinements in store. She made me hold
+the piece of toast on my very nose while she counted <i>ten</i>, and at the
+word <i>ten</i> I was to toss it up in the air, and catch it in my mouth as
+it came down. I was a good while learning this trick, for I did not at
+all see the use of it. I could smell the bread distinctly as it lay on
+my nose, and why I should not eat it at once I never could understand. I
+have often peeped in at the dining-room window to see if my master and
+mistress ate their food in the same manner; but though<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg&nbsp;9]</a></span> I have sometimes
+seen them perform my first feat of sitting quietly before their plates,
+I never once saw them put their meat on their noses and catch it.
+However, it was Lily's pleasure, and that was enough for me.</p>
+
+<p>She also taught me to shut the door at her command. This was rather a
+noisy performance, as I could only succeed by running against the door
+with my whole weight; but it gave Lily so much satisfaction, that she
+used to open the door a dozen times a day, on purpose for me to bang it.</p>
+
+<p>Another favourite amusement of hers was making me look at myself in the
+glass. I grew used to this before long; but the first time that she set
+a mirror before me on the ground, I confess that I was a good deal
+astonished and puzzled. At the first glance, I took the dog in the glass
+for an enemy and rival, intruding upon my dominions, so I naturally
+prepared for a furious attack upon him. He appeared equally ready, and I
+perceived that he was quite my match. But when, after a great deal of
+barking and violence, nobody was hurt, I fancied that the looking-glass
+was the barrier which prevented our coming to close quarters, and that
+my adversary had entrenched himself behind it in the most cowardly
+manner. Determined that he should not profit by<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg&nbsp;10]</a></span> his baseness, I
+cleverly walked round behind the glass, intending to seize him and give
+him a thorough shaking; but there I found nothing! I dashed to the front
+once more; there he stood as fierce as ever. Again behind his
+battlements&mdash;nobody! till after repeated trials, I began to have a
+glimmering of the state of the case; and feeling rather ashamed of
+having been so taken in, I declined further contest, and lay down
+quietly before the mirror to contemplate my own image, and reflect upon
+my own reflection.</p>
+
+<p>Lily took great pains with me; but after all, hers were but minor
+accomplishments, and I was not allowed to devote my whole attention to
+mere tricks or amusements. I was not born to be a lap-dog, and it was
+necessary that I should be educated for the more important business of
+life. Under my master's careful training, my natural talents were
+developed, and my defects subdued, till I was pronounced by the best
+judges to be the cleverest setter in the country. My master himself was
+a capital sportsman, and I was as proud of him as he was of me. When I
+had become sufficiently perfect to be his companion, we used to range
+together untired "over hill, over dale, through bush, through brier," he
+doing his part and I mine, and bringing home<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg&nbsp;11]</a></span> between us such quantities
+of game as no one else could boast. This was my real business, but it
+was no less my pleasure. I entered into it thoroughly. To point at a
+bird immovably till my master's never-failing shot gave the signal for
+my running to fetch the foolish thing and lay it at his feet, was to my
+mind the greatest enjoyment and the first object in life. And if anybody
+should be inclined to despise me on that account, I would beg them to
+recollect that it was the work given me to do, and I did it well. Can
+everybody say as much? The causes or the consequences of it, I was not
+capable of understanding. As to how the birds liked it, that never
+entered my head. I thought birds were meant to be shot, and I never
+supposed there was any other use in them.</p>
+
+<p>The only thing that distressed me in our shooting excursions was, that
+my master would sometimes allow very indifferent sportsmen to accompany
+us. I whined, grumbled, and remonstrated with him to the best of my
+power when I heard him give an invitation to some awkward booby who
+scarcely knew how to hold his gun, but it was all in vain; my master's
+only fault was his not consulting my judgment sufficiently in the choice
+of his acquaintances, and many a bad day's sport we had in consequence.</p>
+
+<p>Once my patience was tired beyond what any clever dog could be expected
+to bear. A young<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg&nbsp;12]</a></span> gentleman had arrived at our house whom my master and
+mistress treated much better than I thought he deserved. At the first
+glance I penetrated into his state of mind, and should have liked to
+hear my master growl, and my mistress bark at him; instead of which they
+said they were glad to see him, and hoped he had had a pleasant journey.</p>
+
+<p>He immediately began a long string of complaints, blaming everything he
+mentioned. He was cold; there never was such weather for the time of
+year; he was tired; the roads were bad, the country dull, he had been
+obliged to come the last twenty miles cramped up inside a coach. Such a
+shame that the railroad did not go the whole way! He was very glad to
+get to his journey's end, but it seemed to be more for the sake of his
+own comfort than for the pleasure of seeing his friends. His troubles
+had not hurt his appetite, as I plainly perceived, for I peeped into the
+room several times during dinner to watch him, and listen to his
+conversation. It was all in the same style, some fault to be found with
+everything. Even Lily could not put him in good humour, though she
+seemed to be trying to talk about everything likely to please him. After
+the failure of various attempts to find a fortunate topic, she asked if
+he had had much shooting this season.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg&nbsp;13]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Plenty of it," he answered; "only so bad. My brother's dogs are
+wretched. There is no doing any thing with such brutes."</p>
+
+<p>Lily coloured a little, and said that she thought Rodolph's dogs
+beautiful, and that it was very unlike him to have any thing wretched
+belonging to him.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh," replied the other, "he is the greenest fellow in the world. He is
+always satisfied. I assure you his dogs are good for nothing. I did not
+bring down a single bird any time I went out with them."</p>
+
+<p>"Well," said my master, "I hope we shall be able to make amends for that
+misfortune. To-morrow you shall go out with the best dog in the
+country."</p>
+
+<p>I whined, for I knew he meant me; and I did not like the idea of a
+sportsman who began by finding fault with his dogs. I suspected that the
+<i>dogs</i> were not to blame. But nobody listened to me.</p>
+
+<p>Next day, while Lily and I were playing in the garden, my master
+appeared at the usual time in his shooting-jacket.</p>
+
+<p>"Where is Craven?" he inquired of Lily; "I told him to be ready."</p>
+
+<p>"He is dressing again," answered she, laughing; "his boots had done
+something wrong, or his waistcoat was naughty; I forget which."</p>
+
+<p>"Pshaw!" exclaimed my master; "he will waste<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg&nbsp;14]</a></span> half the day with his
+nonsense. I cannot wait for him. Tell him I am gone on, and he must
+follow with John. Go back, Captain," continued he, for I was bounding
+after him in hopes of escaping my threatened companion; "go back. You
+must do your best this morning, for I suspect you will know more about
+the matter than your commander."</p>
+
+<p>Most reluctantly I obeyed, and stayed behind, looking wistfully after
+him as he strode away. I consoled myself with Lily's praises, which I
+almost preferred to the biscuits she bestowed upon me in equal
+profusion. After various compliments, she took a graver tone. "Now,
+Captain," she said, "listen to me."</p>
+
+<p>I sat upright, and looked her full in the face.</p>
+
+<p>"You know you are the best of dogs."</p>
+
+<p>I wagged my tail, for I certainly did know it. She told me so every day,
+and I believed every thing she said.</p>
+
+<p>"Here is another biscuit for you: catch!"</p>
+
+<p>I caught, and swallowed it at one gulp.</p>
+
+<p>"Good boy. Now that is enough; and I have something to say to you. You
+are going out shooting with Craven. He is not his brother, but that
+cannot be helped. I hope he will be good-natured to you, but I am not
+sure. Now mind that <i>you</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg&nbsp;15]</a></span> behave well, and set him a good example. Do
+your own work as well as you can, and don't growl and grumble at other
+people. And if you are angry, you must not bark, nor bite him, but take
+it patiently."</p>
+
+<p>What more she might have added I do not know, for her harangue was
+interrupted by old John the groom, who was, like myself, waiting for the
+gentleman in question. John's wife had been Lily's nurse, and he himself
+taught her to ride and helped her to garden, and had a sort of
+partnership with me in taking care of her; so that there was a great
+friendship between us all three. He had been listening to our
+conversation, and now observed, while he pointed towards the house with
+a knowing jerk of his head, "There are those coming, Miss Lily, who need
+your advice as much as the poor animal; and I guess it wouldn't be of
+much more use."</p>
+
+<p>The last words he said to himself, in an undertone, while Lily went
+forward to meet Craven, who now appeared in full costume. He was so hung
+about with extra shooting-pouches, belts, powder-flasks, and other
+things dangling from him in all directions, that I wondered he could
+move at all. Old John shook his head as he looked at him, and muttered,
+"Great cry and little wool."</p>
+
+<p>Lily began to explain her father's absence; but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg&nbsp;16]</a></span> Craven did not listen
+to what she said, he seemed intent upon making her admire his numerous
+contrivances. Lily said he had plenty of tools, and that he would be
+very clever if he did work to match, but that in her opinion such
+variety was rather puzzling.</p>
+
+<p>"Of course, girls know nothing of field-sports," he answered; "I can't
+expect you to understand the merits of these things."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, no, to be sure," answered Lily, good-humouredly; "I dare say they
+are all very clever; only papa sometimes tells <i>me</i> that one wants but
+few tools if one knows one's work; but perhaps he only means girls'
+work. Very likely you are right about yours."</p>
+
+<p>Old John now came forward very respectfully, but with a particular
+twinkle in his eye which I understood. Said he, "As you are encumbered
+with so many traps, master, maybe I had best take your gun. You can't
+carry every thing useful and not useful."</p>
+
+<p>Craven handed him the gun without any objection, and we set off. From
+the moment that I saw him relinquish his gun, his real weapon, for the
+sake of all those unnecessary adjuncts, I gave up any lingering hope of
+him, and followed in very low spirits. Once in the fields, the prospect
+of rejoining my master a little revived me; but even in this I was
+disappointed: he had gone over the open country,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg&nbsp;17]</a></span> while Craven preferred
+remaining in the plantations. Still, old John's company was a comfort to
+me, and when the first bird was descried, I made a capital set at it.
+Craven took back his gun; but while he was looking in the wrong pocket
+for the right shot, John brought down the partridge.</p>
+
+<p>"A fine bird," said Craven. "If it had not been for this awkward button,
+I should have had him."</p>
+
+<p>"You'll soon have another opportunity," said John; "suppose you get
+loaded first."</p>
+
+<p>Craven loaded; but something else was wrong about his contrivances, and
+before he was ready, John had bagged the pheasant. At last Craven got a
+shot, and missed it. He said it was John's fault for standing in the way
+of his seeing me.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, I shan't be in the way any longer," said John; "for I was to go
+back to my work if I was not wanted, after having shown you the
+plantations. So good morning, master, and good luck next time."</p>
+
+<p>The next time, and the next, and the next, no better success. Bird after
+bird rose, and flew away before our noses, as if in sheer ridicule of
+such idle popping, till I felt myself degraded in the eyes of the very
+partridges. Half the morning we passed in this way, wasting time and
+temper, powder and shot; and the birds, as I well knew, despising us for
+missing them, till my patience was quite exhausted, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg&nbsp;18]</a></span> I longed to go
+home. Still, I remembered Lily's parting injunctions, and resolved to be
+game to the last myself, even if we were to have no other game that day.
+I also reflected that no one was born with a gun in his hand, and that
+Craven might not have had opportunity of acquiring dexterity; that there
+was a beginning to everything, and that it was the business of the more
+experienced to help the ignorant. So I continued to be as useful to him
+as I possibly could.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly, after a particularly provoking miss, Craven exclaimed: "It is
+all your fault, you stupid dog; you never turn the bird out where one
+expects it. If you knew your business, I could have bagged dozens."</p>
+
+<p>Highly affronted, I now felt that I had borne enough, and that it was
+hopeless to attempt being of use to a creature as unjust and ungrateful
+as he was ignorant and conceited. I, therefore, turned round, and in a
+quiet but dignified and decided manner took my way towards home. Craven
+called, whistled, shouted, but I took no notice. I was too much
+disgusted to have anything more to do with him; and I never turned my
+head nor slackened my pace till I arrived at my own kennel, when I
+curled myself round in my straw, and brooded over my wrongs till I went
+to sleep.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg&nbsp;19]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I kept rather out of sight during the rest of the day, for more reasons
+than one. An inferior creature cannot at once rise superior to an
+affront, and clear it off his mind like a man; we are slaves to our
+impressions, and till they are forgotten we cannot help acting upon
+them; and I am afraid I rather took pleasure in nursing my wrath. Then I
+did not wish to see Craven; and perhaps I might feel a little ashamed of
+myself, and not quite sure what my master and mistress might think of my
+running away. But I happened to hear John chuckling over the affair, and
+saying that my master had been very much amused with the story; so I
+regained confidence enough next morning to present myself once more,
+though in rather a shy way, to Lily at the foot of the stairs.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, come in to breakfast, you capital dog," exclaimed she; so I
+followed her, delighted to find that I was in the same favour as ever.
+But, alas! how little did I foresee the misfortune that was coming upon
+me! I had better have stayed in my kennel and fancied the whole world
+affronted with me for a few days longer.</p>
+
+<p>Craven and I met on the rug, <i>my</i> rug, as I considered it; for it was
+one of my principal pleasures to sit on that rug with my feet on the
+fender, warming<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg&nbsp;20]</a></span> my nose. I sometimes toasted myself all over, till my
+coat was so hot that Lily squeaked when she touched me. She would have
+barked, I suppose, if she had known how. Now Craven stood in my place,
+with one of his hind paws on my fender. He looked scornfully at me, and
+I returned his glance with one of equal contempt, though I longed to
+snap at his shining heel, and teach him sense and manners.</p>
+
+<p>But Lily, who never was angry with any body, did not perceive how much
+we disliked each other, and exclaimed in her innocent way, "Craven, here
+is Captain come to make friends with you, and to beg pardon for
+deserting you yesterday. Shake a paw, Captain."</p>
+
+<p>Shaking a paw with Craven was a thing I would not do; and my master, a
+good sportsman himself, entered into my feelings.</p>
+
+<p>"The dog was thoroughly provoked by your bad shooting, Craven," said he,
+"and you will never make either him or me believe it was his fault. But
+try again. There is no necessity for you to be a sportsman; but if you
+choose to do a thing at all, you had better do it properly; and you may
+learn as well as any body else, if you will not fancy yourself perfect.
+We will all go out together to-day."</p>
+
+<p>And so we all went out together on that fatal<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg&nbsp;21]</a></span> day. I did myself credit,
+and my master did me justice, and I was happy in my ignorance of coming
+events. Craven shot and missed, and shot and missed again; but my
+master's laugh stopped him whenever he was beginning to lay the blame on
+dog or gun.</p>
+
+<p>"Bad workmen always find fault with their tools, Craven," said my
+master. "Take better aim."</p>
+
+<p>John tried to teach him, but he would listen to no advice.</p>
+
+<p>It is seldom that a person's fault or folly injures himself alone, and,
+alas for me! I was the victim of Craven's conceit and obstinacy. At his
+next fire I felt a pang that I never can forget. His ill-directed shot
+had entered my shoulder, and I sank down howling with agony. My
+companions instantly surrounded me, uttering exclamations of alarm,
+regret, and pity, Craven himself being the foremost and loudest. He
+never should forgive himself, he said; it was all his awkwardness and
+stupidity; he was never so sorry for any thing in his life.</p>
+
+<p>He ran to a neighbouring cottage for a shutter, while my master and John
+bound up the wound. They then placed me carefully on the shutter, and
+carried me home, Craven reproaching himself and pitying me every time he
+opened his lips. I scarcely<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg&nbsp;22]</a></span> knew him for the same person who had been
+so conceited and supercilious half an hour before; and even my master,
+who was extremely angry with him, grew softened by his penitence.</p>
+
+<p>They carried me two at a time, in turn; and when Craven was walking by
+my side, he stroked my head, saying, "Poor Captain, how I wish I could
+do any thing to relieve you! if you could but understand how grieved and
+ashamed I am, I think you would forgive me."</p>
+
+<p>Though suffering greatly, I could not but be touched by his sorrow; and
+when I heard the kind tones of his voice, and saw tears standing in his
+eyes, my anger quite melted away, and I licked his hand to show that I
+bore no malice.</p>
+
+<p>My accident confined me to the kennel for a considerable time, but every
+care and attention was paid me. My master and John doctored my wound,
+and Lily brought me my food every day with her own hands. As long as
+Craven remained in the house, he never failed to accompany her,
+repeating his regret and good-will towards me; and after he had left us
+I heard old John observe: "I always thought there was some good in
+Master Craven; and his brother is as fine a fellow as ever lived, and
+won't let it drop. The boy is quite changed now.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg&nbsp;23]</a></span> Between Captain and
+Miss Lily, I reckon he has had a lesson he'll not forget."</p>
+
+<p>In due time I recovered, and was as strong and handsome as ever; but,
+strange to say, I no longer felt like the same dog. My own sufferings
+had suggested some serious reflections as to whether being shot might
+not be as unpleasant to the birds as to me; and I really began quite to
+pity them. So far the change was for the better; but it did not stop
+there: not only was my love for field-sports extinguished, but it had
+given place to a timidity which neither threats nor caresses could
+overcome. I shuddered at the very sight of a gun, and no amount either
+of reward or punishment could induce me again to brave its effects.
+Under all other circumstances I was as courageous as before: I would
+have attacked a wild beast, or defended the house against a robber,
+without the slightest fear; but I could not stand fire; and the moment I
+saw a gun pointed, there was no help for it, I fairly turned tail and
+ran off.</p>
+
+<p>"The poor beast is spoilt, sir," said John to my master. "It is cruel to
+force him, and he'll never be good for any thing again."</p>
+
+<p>"It is of no use taking him out," replied my master; "but he is far from
+good for nothing. He<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg&nbsp;24]</a></span> has plenty of spirit still, and we must make a
+house-dog of him."</p>
+
+<p>So I was appointed house-dog. At first I certainly felt the change of
+life very unpleasant; but I reflected that it was my own doing, though
+not exactly my own fault; and I determined to make the best of it, and
+adapt myself to my new employments. At the beginning of that summer, if
+any body had told me that I should be content to stay in the court and
+garden, sometimes even tethered to a tree on the lawn,&mdash;that my most
+adventurous amusement would he a quiet walk over the grounds, and my
+most exciting occupation the looking-out for suspicious characters,&mdash;I
+should have sneered, perhaps even growled at the prediction; but so it
+was, and before long I grew reconciled to my new station, and resolved
+to gain more credit as a guard than even as a sporting dog.</p>
+
+<p>We were not much troubled with thieves, for we lived in a quiet country
+place, where we knew every body and every body knew us, and no one was
+likely to wish us any harm; but it did once happen that my vigilance was
+put to the proof.</p>
+
+<p>There was a fair in our neighbourhood, attended by all the villages
+near. During the morning I amused myself by watching the people in
+their<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg&nbsp;25]</a></span> smart dresses passing our gate, laughing and talking merrily. I
+had many acquaintances among them, who greeted me with good-natured
+speeches, which I answered by polite wags of my tail.</p>
+
+<p>John, and others of our servants, went to the fair, and seemed to enjoy
+themselves as much as any body. They returned home before dark, and all
+the respectable persons who had passed our gate in the morning re-passed
+it at an early hour in the evening, looking as if they had spent a
+pleasant day, but perfectly quiet and sober; and I was much pleased at
+seeing them so well behaved.</p>
+
+<p>But among the crowd of passengers in the morning, I had noticed several
+men whose appearance I highly disapproved. Some of them scowled at me as
+they passed, and I felt sure they were bent upon no good; but one, the
+worst-looking of all, stopped, and whistled to me, holding out a piece
+of meat. I need scarcely say that I indignantly rejected his bribe&mdash;for
+such I knew it was&mdash;meant to entice me in some way or other to neglect
+my duty; so I growled and snarled, and watched him well as he passed on.
+No fear of my not knowing him again by sight or smell. Several of these
+ill-looking men returned intoxicated, to my great disgust; for I had a
+peculiar objection to persons in that condition,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg&nbsp;26]</a></span> and never trusted a
+man who could degrade himself below my own level. I watched them all,
+every moment expecting the one who had tried to curry favour with me,
+for I had an instinctive assurance that I had not seen the last of him.
+Night drew on while I was still on the look-out, and yet he did not
+appear. The rest of the family went calmly to bed, taking no notice of
+my disquietude; but nothing could have induced <i>me</i> to curl myself round
+and shut my eyes. I was sure danger was near, and it was my part as a
+faithful guardian to be prepared for it. So I alternately paced
+cautiously round the court, or sat up in my kennel with my head out
+listening for every sound. By degrees the returning parties of revellers
+dwindled to now and then a solitary pedestrian; and the hum of voices
+gradually subsided, till all was silent, and the whole country seemed
+asleep. Still I watched on, with unabated vigilance, deep into the
+night. At last I thought I heard outside the wall a very cautious
+footstep, accompanied by an almost inaudible whisper. I pricked up my
+ears; the footstep came nearer, and a hand was upon the lock of the
+courtyard-gate. I sniffed the air; there was no mistake; I smelt the
+very man whom I expected. Others might be with him, but there was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg&nbsp;27]</a></span> <i>he</i>.
+Without a moment's delay, I set up an alarum that might have wakened the
+whole village; at any rate, it woke our whole house. Down stairs came my
+master in his dressing-gown; down came old John, lantern in hand, and
+red nightcap on head. Lily peeped out of her bedroom window, with a
+shawl over her shoulders; and seeing her papa in the court, ran down to
+help him,&mdash;as if she could have been any help against robbers, poor
+little darling! The servants assembled in such strange attire, that they
+looked to me like a herd of animals who had got into each other's coats
+by mistake. But the maids had kept their own voices at any rate, for
+they screamed almost as loud as I barked. It was a proud moment for me;
+and the greater everybody's fright, and the more noise and confusion
+they made, the prouder I was. It was all <i>my</i> doing. It was <i>I</i> who had
+called them all in the middle of the night. Their confidence in me was
+such, that at the sound of my voice they had all left their beds, and
+assembled in the courtyard in their night-gowns. How clever and careful
+they must think me! And how clever and careful I thought myself! I
+danced round Lily, and bounded about in all directions, till I knocked
+down the sleepy stable-boy, and got into every body's way. I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg&nbsp;28]</a></span> never was
+in such glee in my life. But my master and John were quiet enough, and
+they examined the gate, and the footsteps outside, and decided that
+there certainly had been an attempt to break into the house, but that
+the robbers had been frightened away by me.</p>
+
+<p>"It has been a narrow escape for them, sir," said John; "for if they had
+succeeded in getting in, the dog would have pinned them."</p>
+
+<p>"Captain has done his duty well," said my master, "and no one can call
+him useless any more."</p>
+
+<p>"It is a good thing no one was hurt," added Lily; "but I am glad they
+were frightened. Perhaps the fright will cure them."</p>
+
+<p>After this adventure I was treated with great respect. By night I
+watched the house, and by day I was Lily's constant companion. We were
+allowed to take long rambles together, as her father knew she was safe
+under my care. I learnt to carry her basket or parasol for her, and to
+sit faithfully guarding them while she scrambled up banks or through
+bushes, looking for flowers. I was also an excellent swimmer, and could
+fetch sticks which she had thrown to the very middle of the stream. I
+could not make out why she wanted the sticks, as she never took them
+home with her; but we were quite<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg&nbsp;29]</a></span> of one mind about fetching them out of
+the water. Often I accompanied her to the village, and lay at the
+cottage-doors while she paid visits to the people inside. Then the
+little children used to gather round me, and pat me, and pull my ears;
+and even if they pulled a little too hard, I scorned to complain, or
+hurt them in return; and when Lily came out, I was rewarded by her
+praise of me as the best and gentlest dog in the world.</p>
+
+<p>At other times she used to establish herself to read or work under a
+tree on the lawn, while I lay at her feet, or sat upright by her side. I
+was careful not to interrupt her when she was busy, but she often left
+off reading to speak to me, and sometimes let me keep my front paw in
+hers as we sat together. These were happy days, and I should have liked
+them to last for ever. But this state of tranquillity was to be
+disturbed, and I am sorry to say by my own folly.</p>
+
+<p>I had insensibly imbibed a notion, or rather a feeling, that I was
+Lily's only pet and favourite, and that nothing else had a right to
+attract her notice. Of course I allowed her to pay proper attention to
+human beings; I knew that I could not come into competition with <i>them</i>,
+and therefore I never was jealous of them; but a word or a look
+bestowed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg&nbsp;30]</a></span> upon an inferior animal appeared to me an affront which proper
+self-respect required me to resent.</p>
+
+<p>One day Lily appeared in the garden carrying a little white kitten in
+her arms. I should have liked to have it to worry, and as Lily was very
+good-natured, I thought she had brought it for that purpose; so I sat
+watching ready to snap at it the moment she should toss it at me. After
+a time, I began to think she ought not to tantalise me by keeping me
+waiting so long, and I tried to show my impatience by various signs that
+she could understand. But to my surprise she was not only insensible to
+my hints, but took upon herself to reprove me, saying, "No, Captain,
+that is not being a good dog; you must not want to hurt the poor little
+kitten. Go farther off."</p>
+
+<p>If ever I was affronted in my life it was then. I turned round, and
+shaking my ears, sat down with my back to Lily and her disgusting
+kitten, and absolutely refused even to look round when she spoke to me.</p>
+
+<p>This was the beginning of a period in my life to which I always recur
+with shame and regret. I continued in a state of unmitigated sulks. Even
+Lily could not appease me. If she came to see me by herself, indeed, or
+with only human beings in her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg&nbsp;31]</a></span> train, I brightened up for the moment;
+but if she appeared with the kitten in her arms, my surliness was
+disgraceful. Nobody knows how I detested the kitten. I thought it a
+misfortune to the universe that that kitten should exist.</p>
+
+<p>On thinking it over at this distance of time, I honestly confess that I
+had no right to be jealous; Lily remitted none of her kindness, and gave
+me every proof of much higher regard and esteem than she bestowed on the
+kitten. She fed me, patted me, took me out walking, and talked to me
+just as usual; and as soon as she perceived my objection to her new pet,
+she left off bringing it with her, and was careful to keep it out of my
+sight. But I saw it in spite of all her pains. It was incessantly
+intruding itself upon my notice, sometimes on the roof of the house,
+sometimes jumping from a window-ledge; now perched upon a paling, now
+climbing the pillars of the verandah; and always looking clean and white
+and pretty, with a bit of blue ribbon which Lily had tied round its
+neck, as if on purpose to provoke me. Even when I did not see it, I
+heard it mew; and when I did not hear it, I thought about it.</p>
+
+<p>I was miserable. To be sure I had no right to expect Lily to like nobody
+but me, and I had nothing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg&nbsp;32]</a></span> to complain of; every pleasure and comfort in
+life was mine. Indeed, I think a real grievance would have been rather
+pleasant to me. I should have liked an injustice. I was determined to
+sulk, and should have been glad to have something to sulk at. But no;
+people would persevere in being kind to me. I might be as ill-tempered
+as I pleased; nobody punished, or even scolded me; and whenever I chose
+to be in good humour, my friends were always ready to meet me half-way.
+Indeed, I never was quite sure whether they noticed my ill-temper or
+not. But I did not try to come round, though certainly sulking did not
+conduce to my comfort. I once heard my master remark, in reference to
+some disagreeable human being, that ill-tempered people made themselves
+more unhappy than they made others; so I suppose sulking does not always
+agree even with men; I know it does not with dogs. It was a wretched
+time.</p>
+
+<p>I continued to brood over my imaginary grievances, little thinking how
+soon they would be exchanged for real troubles. I had been discontented
+while every enjoyment was at my command, and now I was to wish in vain
+for the happiness I had neglected. And yet, in the point which I
+considered most important, I had my own way. I one<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg&nbsp;33]</a></span> day thought that if
+I were never again to see Lily caressing that kitten, I should be quite
+happy. I never again saw Lily caressing the kitten, and from that day my
+real sorrows began.</p>
+
+<p>There was a bustle in the house. Every thing seemed in confusion. Every
+body was doing something different from usual. Furniture and trunks were
+carried up and down stairs. My master's study was full of great chests;
+and he and Lily, instead of reading the books, spent all their time in
+hiding them in these chests. Next, my friend John came and nailed covers
+on the chests. After the first was nailed down, I jumped upon it, and
+sat watching John while he hammered the others; switching my tail, and
+winking my eyes at every stroke of his hammer, rather surprised at all
+that went on, but yet liking the bustle.</p>
+
+<p>"Ah, poor old boy," said John, "I wonder how you'll take it."</p>
+
+<p>"Take what?" thought I, and wondered too.</p>
+
+<p>One day, John and another man went out with the horses, each riding on
+one and leading another. Thinking they were going to exercise them, I
+followed as I often did; but when we came to the end of the village John
+ordered me home, saying, "Good bye, Captain. Don't forget us, old
+fellow." I returned according to his command, but felt very<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg&nbsp;34]</a></span> much
+puzzled, as John had never before sent me home.</p>
+
+<p>On arriving at the house, a waggon was standing at the door, piled up to
+a great height with chests and packages; and on the top of all was
+perched an ugly cur, barking as if he considered himself the master of
+everything. I was willing to make a civil acquaintance with him, but the
+little mongrel had the audacity to bark at <i>me</i>,&mdash;me in my own
+dominions! I did not think he was worth touching, besides which, I could
+not get at him; but I growled fiercely; and his master, who was loading
+the waggon, desired me to "get out of the way."</p>
+
+<p>Thus rejected on all sides, I betook myself to the court, and rolled
+myself round in the straw of my own kennel, where nobody could affront
+me. There I remained till I heard Lily's sweet voice at a distance
+calling, "Captain, Captain!" I bounded forth once more at the sound, and
+met my pretty mistress in her walking dress, with the basket in her hand
+which I had so often carried. But she did not invite me to accompany
+her. "Poor Captain," said she, "I am come to bid you good bye. I am
+afraid you will miss us sadly; but I hope they will take good care of
+you. Good bye, best of dogs."</p>
+
+<p>"Come, Lily, make haste," I heard my master call from the gate, and Lily
+and I ran towards him.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg&nbsp;35]</a></span> He was standing by a carriage, with the door
+open and the steps let down. The gardener and his wife were near; he
+with his hat in his hand, and she wiping her eyes with the corner of her
+apron. Lily jumped into the carriage, her papa followed her; the
+gardener wished them a pleasant journey, "and a happy return," added his
+wife, and they drove off, Lily keeping her head at the window, and
+kissing her hand to us till she was out of sight.</p>
+
+<p>At first I had no idea that they were not coming back. Though I heard
+the gardener say that they were "gone for good," it did not occur to me
+that that meant harm to us. They often went out for a day and returned
+in the evening; so at the usual time I expected their ring at the bell,
+and went to the gate to meet them. But no bell rang; no carriage drove
+up; no sound of horses' hoofs was to be heard in the distance, though I
+listened till the gardener came to lock up for the night, and ordered me
+to the court, where it was my business to keep guard.</p>
+
+<p>Next morning there was a strange stillness and idleness. No master
+taking his early walk over the grounds. No Lily gathering her flowers
+before breakfast. No John to open the stable door, and let me in to bark
+good morning to the horses. No horses; a boy sweeping the deserted
+stable, and rack and manger empty. No carriage; the coach-house<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg&nbsp;36]</a></span> filled
+with lumber, and the shutters closed in the loft. No servants about. I
+rather congratulated myself upon the disappearance of Lily's maid, who
+had a habit of making uncivil speeches if I crossed her path in running
+to meet Lily. That maid and I had never been friends since I once had
+the misfortune to shake myself near her when coming out of the water. I
+confess I did wet her, and I did dirty her; but I did not know that
+water would hurt her coat,&mdash;it never hurt mine; and she need not have
+borne malice for ever; I should have forgiven her long ago if she had
+dirtied me. But whenever she saw me she took the opportunity of saying
+something mortifying, as, "Out of the way; don't come nigh me with that
+great mop of yours!" or, "Get along with you! I wonder what Miss Lily
+can see to like in such a great lumbering brute." I kept out of her way
+as much as I could, and it was now some consolation that she did not
+come in mine.</p>
+
+<p>But it was a dull day. In due time the gardener's wife called, and gave
+me my breakfast, setting it down outside the kitchen door. It was a
+comfortable breakfast, for she was a good-natured woman, not likely to
+neglect Lily's charge to take care of me. I wagged my tail, and looked
+up in her face to thank her, but she was already gone without taking<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg&nbsp;37]</a></span>
+farther notice of me. She had done her work of giving me the necessaries
+of life, and my feelings were nothing to her. How I remembered my pretty
+Lily, and wished for her pleasant welcome.</p>
+
+<p>After breakfast I went on an expedition to the flower-garden, thinking I
+might have a chance of finding some trace of my mistress in that
+favourite haunt. The gate was shut, but I heard steps, and scratched to
+be let in. I scratched and whined for some time; Lily would not have
+kept me half so long. At last the gardener looked over the top of the
+gate:</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, it's you," said he; "I thought so. But you had best go and amuse
+yourself in places proper for you; you are not coming to walk over my
+flowerbeds any more."</p>
+
+<p>He did not speak unkindly, and I had often heard him tell Lily that I
+was "best out of the flower-garden;" so I could not reasonably grumble;
+but his speech showed the change in my position, and I walked away from
+the closed gate with my mind much oppressed, and my tail between my
+legs.</p>
+
+<p>I intended to go and meditate in the boat, but here again I was
+disappointed; the boat-house was locked; I had no resource but to jump
+into the water and swim to a little island in which Lily had a favourite
+arbour. There in a summer's day she often rested, hidden in jessamine
+and honeysuckle; and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg&nbsp;38]</a></span> there I now took refuge, attracted to the spot by
+its strong association with herself.</p>
+
+<p>I scarcely know whether I sought the arbour with the hope of finding her
+present, or the intention of mourning her absent; but I went to think
+about her. Alas! that was all I could do. She was not there. A book of
+hers had been left unheeded on the ground, and I laid down and placed my
+paws upon it to guard it, as I had often done before. In this position I
+fell asleep, and remained unconscious of fortunes or misfortunes, till I
+was awakened by dreaming of dinner. <i>That</i> dream could be realised. I
+jumped up, shook myself, and yawned more comfortably than I had done all
+day.</p>
+
+<p>On moving my paws from Lily's book, it struck me that it would be right
+to carry it home to her; and then once more the hope revived of finding
+her at home herself. It was the most likely thing in the world that she
+should come home to dinner. Everybody did, I supposed; I was going home
+to dinner myself.</p>
+
+<p>With the book in my mouth, I swam across the water. Perhaps I did not
+keep it quite dry, but I carried it into the house, and laid it down
+before the gardener and his wife, who were the only persons I could see
+on the premises.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, that is sensible, I must confess," said the gardener. "The dumb
+animal has found missy's<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg&nbsp;39]</a></span> book, and brought it back. Miss Lily would
+like to hear that."</p>
+
+<p>"Ah, she always thought a deal of the creature," replied his wife; "and
+for her sake he shan't be neglected. Here's your dinner, Captain."</p>
+
+<p>"Give him that bone," said the gardener; "that's what he'll like."</p>
+
+<p>So they gave me a charming bone, quite to my taste; and for a time I
+forgot all my anxieties in the pleasure of turning it round, sucking,
+biting, pawing, and growling over it. I cared for no other dinner;
+indeed I never could understand how people could trouble themselves to
+eat anything else as long as there was a bone to gnaw. But it is
+fortunate there are various tastes in the world; and the strange
+preference of men for other food is convenient for us dogs, as it leaves
+us in more undisputed possession of the bones than if our masters liked
+gnawing them too.</p>
+
+<p>But the pleasure of a bone does not last for ever, and among the nobler
+races of animals Thought cannot be entirely kept under by eating. I have
+heard that greedy human beings sometimes reduce themselves to the
+condition of pigs, who are entirely devoted to cramming; but <i>I</i> should
+not choose to degrade myself to that level. So I soon began meditating,
+and cogitating, and speculating again.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg&nbsp;40]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>My life now grew every day more and more dismal. Dinner-time brought its
+bone, but bones soon failed to comfort me. The gardener said I was "off
+my feed," and his wife feared I should mope to death. All day I wandered
+about looking for Lily, and at night retired to my kennel, under the sad
+impression that she was farther off than ever. The gardener himself once
+invited me into the flower-garden in hopes of amusing me, and I explored
+all the gravel-walks, carefully avoiding the borders; but there was no
+trace of my lost Lily, and I never cared to visit it again.</p>
+
+<p>One day I thought I would search the house. It was thrown open to me.
+There were no forbidden drawing-rooms now; I prowled about as I pleased.
+If the doors were shut, I might scratch as long as I liked; nobody
+answered. If open, I walked round and round the room, brushing the
+wainscot with my tail. There were no china ornaments to be thrown down
+now, and I might whisk it about as I would. Formerly I had often wished
+for free entrance to those rooms; now I should have welcomed a friendly
+hand that shut me out of them. In passing before a large mirror, I
+marvelled at my own forlorn and neglected appearance. Once, I was worth
+looking at in a glass; now, what a difference! Sorrow had so changed my
+whole aspect, that I stared with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg&nbsp;41]</a></span> dismay at the gaunt spectre which
+stared at me in return, and we howled at each other for company.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 396px;">
+<img src="images/img2.jpg" width="396" height="500" alt="CAPTAIN&#39;S DREAM. Page 40" title="" />
+<span class="caption">CAPTAIN&#39;S DREAM. <small><a href="#Page_40">Page 40</a></small></span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Lying down before the blank mirror, which had formerly thrown back so
+many pleasant images, and now reflected only my solitary figure in the
+deserted room, I silently pondered on the past. In a half-wakeful,
+half-dozing state, my eyes alternately opening and shutting, now winking
+and blinking at the glass, now for a moment losing sight of every thing,
+the events of my life seemed to pass before me in a dream; the persons
+with whom I had been connected rose up again as shadows, and I myself
+seemed another shadow gliding about among them, but a shadow whose
+behaviour I had acquired a new faculty of observing.</p>
+
+<p>I saw myself now as others saw me,&mdash;an uncommon condition either for
+dogs or men,&mdash;and I watched my own deportment in all my states of mind
+and stages of life. I saw myself first a mere puppy, not worth notice.
+The puppy grew, and I saw it as a dog; a fine, well-bred, and certainly
+a fortunate dog. Then as a clever, knowing, useful dog; a gentle,
+patient, obedient dog. Sometimes perhaps an awkward or foolish dog; but
+those were pardonable faults, while I was certainly a brave, honest, and
+faithful dog. But at last I saw myself as a <i>jealous dog</i>; and I paused,
+startled at the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg&nbsp;42]</a></span> strange light in which my conduct appeared. How silly,
+unreasonable, and fractious I had been! I plainly perceived that what I
+had taken for injured dignity and wounded affection was nothing but
+pride and envy; that I had not a single ground of complaint, but that my
+own ill-temper might have justly given offence to my best friends; and
+while I had fancied myself setting so high a value upon Lily's regard, I
+was recklessly running the risk of losing it altogether. Happily I had
+been spared <i>that</i> punishment, however well deserved. Lily's friendship
+had never failed me. She had either excused or not perceived my faults,
+and we had parted on the best possible terms.</p>
+
+<p>Now that I could view matters more justly, I was quite out of patience
+with myself for fancying that I should be happy if I no longer saw Lily
+nursing that kitten. Happy indeed! There was no chance of my being
+troubled with such a sight, and I was miserable! I would have put up
+with all the cats and kittens that were met coming from St. Ives; I
+would have tried to settle the quarrel between the Kilkenny cats who ate
+each other up, all but the tips of their tails;&mdash;any thing to see Lily
+once more, even if she chose to nurse all the kittens of "Catland."</p>
+
+<p>But it was too late; my regrets were all in vain;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg&nbsp;43]</a></span> and the only course
+that seemed left for me now was to give up the rest of my days to
+brooding over my sorrows and my faults. But before I had quite devoted
+myself to this line of life, I gave a glance at my shadow in the glass
+doing the same. There I saw him moping away all his time; making no
+amends for his bad conduct, no attempts at behaving better; utterly
+useless, sulky, and disagreeable; in fact, more foolish than ever.</p>
+
+<p>"No," thought I, as I jumped up and shook myself all over, "I will not
+have this distressing experience for nothing; I will make good use of
+it; I cannot recall the past, but I will act differently for the
+future;" and down I lay again to make plans for the future. Coming
+events cast no shadows before, either in the glass or in my dreams. I
+knew nothing about what I might, could, would, or should do. The Past I
+had lost, the Future was not in my power; and what remained to me?
+Perhaps I might never have an opportunity of behaving well again.</p>
+
+<p>I was fast relapsing into despondency, when suddenly I was aroused from
+my dreams by a sound once odious to me. I raised myself upon my front
+paws and listened. There was no mistake, I heard it again; a thin and
+timid <i>mew</i>, dying away in the distance, and sounding as if it proceeded
+from the mere shadow of a cat. But faint and shadowy as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg&nbsp;44]</a></span> it was, I
+recognised it; it recalled me to realities, and the conviction of my
+right line of conduct flashed across my mind. The Present&mdash;the present
+moment was mine. I could only take warning by the past, and hope for the
+future, but I must act <i>now</i>. I have but to take every opportunity when
+it offers itself, and there would be no fear of not having opportunities
+enough. Here was one ready at hand. Instead of worrying that kitten, who
+was now in my power, I would magnanimously endure her existence. I would
+do more; I would let her know that she had nothing any longer to fear
+from me; and in pursuance of this kind intention, I walked about the
+room in search of her.</p>
+
+<p>I soon descried her, perched upon the top of a high bookcase, not daring
+to come down for fear of me. She was altered by recent events, though
+not so much as I. She looked forlorn and uncomfortable, but not shaggy,
+haggard, or dirty. The regard to her toilette which had characterised
+her in better days still clung to her, and made her neat and tidy in
+misfortune. The blue ribbon round her neck was indeed faded, but in
+other respects she looked as clean and white and sleek as Lily herself.
+She had evidently licked herself all over every day, instead of moping
+in the dirt. She and Lily had always been somewhat alike in point of
+cleanliness. Indeed, I once<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg&nbsp;45]</a></span> imagined that Lily must lick herself all
+over in order to look so clean; but on further consideration I had
+reason to believe that she commonly attained her object by plunging into
+cold water, more after my own fashion.</p>
+
+<p>But to return to the kitten. There she stood, the very picture of fear;
+her legs stretched, her tail arched, her back raised, trying to assume
+the best posture of defence she could, but evidently believing it of no
+use. She mewed louder at every step I took nearer. Even if I had been
+inclined to harm her, she was safe enough on the top of that high
+bookcase; but she did not know that. In her inexperience, she fancied me
+able to spring about the world as she did, and expected every moment
+that I should perch on the carved oak crown, and seize her in my mouth,
+jump down again and crunch her as she would a mouse.</p>
+
+<p>She began running backwards and forwards on the top of her bookcase,
+mewing piteously at every turn. I understood her language: it meant,
+"Oh, what shall I do? Mew, mew! Pray, my lord, have pity upon an
+unfortunate kitten! Mew, mew, mew! If you will let me run away this
+time, I will keep out of your lordship's sight all the rest of my life.
+Mew, mew, mew! Oh dear, I had not the least intention of intruding on
+your highness; I thought<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg&nbsp;46]</a></span> your majesty was in the stable. I wish I was
+in the coal-cellar myself. Oh, oh, pray! oh, mew!"</p>
+
+<p>So she went on for a long time, in too great a fright to observe the
+encouragement and condescension which I threw into my countenance and
+manner. I sat down in front of the bookcase, and holding my head on one
+side, looked up at her with an expression of gentle benevolence, which I
+thought must re-assure the most timid spirit. It had some effect. She
+ceased running from side to side, and stopped opposite me, her yellow
+eyes fixed on mine. I returned her gaze, and wagged my tail. She lowered
+hers, which bad been held up like a peacock's, and reduced to its
+natural dimensions. After a sufficient amount of staring, we began to
+understand one another, and Pussy's mews were in a very different tone,
+and one much more satisfactory to me.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 377px;">
+<img src="images/img3.jpg" width="377" height="500" alt="PUSS AND THE CAPTAIN. Page 46" title="" />
+<span class="caption">PUSS AND THE CAPTAIN. <small><a href="#Page_46">Page 46</a></small></span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Though every animal makes use of a dialect of its own, so different as
+to appear to men a distinct language for each race,&mdash;for instance, the
+barking of a dog, the mewing of a cat, the bellowing of a bull,
+&amp;c.,&mdash;still, a general mode of expression is common to all, and all can
+understand and be understood by one another. The reason of this is, that
+the universal language is that of <i>feeling</i> only, which is alike to
+every one, and can be made evident by the most inarticulate sounds.
+Moans, murmurs, sighs, whines,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg&nbsp;47]</a></span> growls, roars, are sufficient to
+express our <i>feelings</i>: our <i>thoughts</i>, when we have any, we must keep
+to ourselves; for they cannot be made intelligible by mere sound without
+speech, and speech we know belongs to man alone. In fact, I suppose it
+is the power of thinking and speaking which makes him our master;
+without it, I am not at all sure that he would have so much the upper
+hand of us, for we are often the strongest. But a man can always know
+what he means to do, and why he means to do it; and he can tell others,
+and consult them about it; which, of course, gives him an immense
+advantage over us, who only act upon the spur of the moment, without
+knowing whether we are right or wrong.</p>
+
+<p>Good-nature was all that Pussy and I wanted to express just now, and
+<i>that</i> is always easy to show, with or without words. Mews in various
+tones from her were met by small, good-humoured half-barks and agreeable
+grunts from me, till at last she fairly left off mewing, and began to
+purr. Much pleased with my success so far, I now lay down, stretching
+out my front paws to their full length before, and my tail behind,
+brushing the floor in a half-circle with the latter. Then I yawned in a
+friendly way, and finally laid my head down on my paws to watch my
+little prot&eacute;g&eacute;e quietly, in hopes of enticing her from her fortress.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg&nbsp;48]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>This last insinuating attitude decided her. She gently placed first one
+little white paw, and then another, on projecting ornaments of the
+bookcase, one step on the lion, and the next on the unicorn; and without
+hurting either herself or the delicate carved work which she chose to
+use as her staircase, she alighted harmless and unharmed within my
+reach. Then she mewed once more; but that was her last expression of
+doubt or dread. I soon reassured her; and that moment was the first of a
+confidence and intimacy seldom seen between our uncongenial races.</p>
+
+<p>We had now, in our way, a long conversation, during which we became
+pretty well acquainted with each other's dispositions; and in due time
+we descended the stairs together in perfect amity; I gravely walked step
+by step, and looking up benignly at the gambols of little Pussy, who,
+now in high spirits, had no idea of coming down in a regular way, but
+must scramble up the banisters, hang by her claws from the hand-rail,
+recover herself instantaneously when within an inch of falling headlong
+into the hall, and play a hundred other wild tricks. A short time
+before, I should have thought all this a most despicable waste of time
+and strength; but now I could see that it did her good and made her
+happy, and I looked on rather with approbation.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg&nbsp;49]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I shall never forget the surprise of the gardener's wife when Puss and I
+entered the kitchen side by side. She screamed as if we had been a
+couple of wild beasts.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh," cried she, "there's that poor little kitten just under Captain's
+nose! He'll be the death of her. What shall I do?"</p>
+
+<p>She seized a broom, and held it between us, ready to beat me if I
+ventured to attack the kitten. But I wagged my tail, and Puss jumped
+over the broomstick.</p>
+
+<p>"Well to be sure!" said Mrs. Gardener, letting fall the broom, and
+holding up her hands; "did any body ever see the like of that!"</p>
+
+<p>She placed a saucer of milk on the floor, and I sat quietly and let the
+kitten drink it. The kitten herself was a little surprised at this, and
+hesitated before beginning, not knowing exactly what it might be proper
+for her to do; indeed, I could scarcely expect her to understand the
+etiquette of so unusual a circumstance; but she had a great deal of
+tact, and soon perceived that I wished her to go on naturally; so she
+began lapping, though looking round at me between every two or three
+mouthfuls, to make sure that she was not taking a liberty. But meeting
+with nothing but encouragement, she finished her repast with great
+satisfaction, and we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg&nbsp;50]</a></span> both laid ourselves down by the kitchen-fire, as
+if we had been friends all our lives.</p>
+
+<p>"Well to be sure!" exclaimed the gardener's wife again. It was her
+favourite phrase; she seemed never to tire of it, and to have little
+else to say; but I understood what she meant, and took a comfortable nap
+in consequence.</p>
+
+<p>By and by came dinner, and a pleasant little meal it was. Instead of
+flying at the kitten for presuming to eat at all, I quite enjoyed having
+a companion. My platter stood, as usual, in the yard, and Pussy's in a
+corner of the kitchen; but by mutual consent we began dragging our
+respective bones along the ground to eat in company; and the gardener's
+wife seeing the proceeding, carried our plates for us, and placed them
+side by side outside the door, and we finished our meal in the most
+sociable manner.</p>
+
+<p>Times were now altered: but I need not give a detailed account of every
+day. The good understanding between Pussy and me continued to increase,
+till it ripened into the warmest friendship. Uncongenial companion as
+she appeared, I grew by degrees fonder of her than I had ever been of
+any of my own tribe; and although our habits were by nature totally
+dissimilar, we learned to understand, and even to take pleasure in
+accommodating ourselves to each other's little peculiarities.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg&nbsp;51]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I confess this was not done in a moment. At first I certainly was
+occasionally annoyed by Pussy's inconsistencies. She would profess to be
+so refined, that a speck of dirt on her white coat made her unhappy; so
+delicate, that she could not endure to wet her feet; so modest, that she
+could not bear to be looked at while she was eating; while at the same
+time she would scamper into the dirtiest hole after a mouse, and then
+devour the nasty vermin with a satisfaction quite disgusting to a
+well-bred sporting dog like myself.</p>
+
+<p>I wished to educate her in the sentiments and habits of my own nobler
+race, but I found it a hopeless task. If I took her out for a walk, and
+tried to impress her with the pleasure of a good healthy swim in the
+pond, she listened politely; but in spite of all my arguments, when we
+arrived at the water's edge, and I plunged in, she never could be
+induced to follow; there she stood, mewing and shivering on the brink,
+not daring even to wet her claws. If I objected to her mice, she argued
+that they were her natural food, and agreed with her; and so on through
+all my attempts to reform her.</p>
+
+<p>The little creature had generally an answer ready; and what was
+peculiarly provoking to a person unused to contradiction, like myself,
+she often disputed points upon which I had supposed there could be but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg&nbsp;52]</a></span>
+one opinion. When I was trying to shame her into being more like a dog,
+she actually told me that she doubted whether mine really was the nobler
+race, for that the lion was her chief, and she challenged me to show his
+equal. This was the more irritating because I could not answer it; and I
+take some credit to myself for having kept my temper on the occasion, as
+I did feel tempted to give her a shake. Luckily it occurred to me that
+quarrelling with people for being in the right would not put them in the
+wrong, and that shaking them might not be the way to shake their
+opinions. So I was silent, and pretended to be indulgent.</p>
+
+<p>After all, the little cat had received an education extremely suitable
+to her character and circumstances. Lily had made an in-door companion
+of her, as she had made an out-door one of me, and had taken great pains
+to cultivate her natural talents. Her manners were perfect. It was
+impossible to be more gentle, graceful, and courteous than Puss. Always
+at hand, but never in the way; quick in observing, but slow in
+interfering; active and ready in her own work, but quiet and retiring
+when not required to come forward; affectionate in her temper, and
+regular in her habits,&mdash;she was a thoroughly feminine domestic
+character.</p>
+
+<p>She had her own ideas about me, which she communicated<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg&nbsp;53]</a></span> to me when we
+were sufficiently intimate for her to speak openly. Perhaps she did not
+admire me quite so much as I admired myself; but perhaps she was
+right&mdash;who knows? I have heard that even among men, lookers-on are
+sometimes the best judges. She did full justice to my strength and
+courage, and applauded my daring way of rushing upon an enemy, without
+regard to his size or position, instead of running into a corner and
+spitting at him. She admitted, without hesitation, that mine was the
+superior proceeding; but she suggested, that perhaps it might be as well
+not to be quite so ready to attack other dogs before they had given me
+any offence: also that it was unnecessary to suppose that every man who
+came to the house <i>must</i> have bad intentions, whether he gave me just
+cause for suspicion or not. In fact, she hinted that it was good to be
+brave, but bad to be quarrelsome. Then as to my personal appearance, she
+acknowledged that I was larger and handsomer than she, and that my
+rough, shaggy coat was far from unbecoming; but when I laughed at her
+finical cleanliness, and called her affected for not keeping her own
+white fur as rough and muddy as mine, she reminded me that it was that
+very neatness, so despised by me, which had procured her entrance into
+Lily's drawing-room,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg&nbsp;54]</a></span> while I, with all my good qualities, was never
+allowed to come up stairs.</p>
+
+<p>I had always thought it rather grand to bang about in a careless manner;
+and if I knocked any thing down, I supposed it was the thing's fault. I
+once swept down with my tail a whole trayful of crockery; and when I was
+scolded for doing mischief, I thought it quite sufficient excuse to say
+to myself, "I did not do it on purpose; what is the use of making such a
+fuss?" But I now saw clearly that Pussy's care not to do any mischief at
+all was both more agreeable to others and more advantageous to herself.</p>
+
+<p>For instance, the gardener's wife turned me out in the cold while she
+was washing the china, whereas she let Pussy walk about on the very
+table among the cups and saucers, stepping so carefully with her soft
+little paws that there was no danger of any breakage. I have seen her
+walk along the edge of every shelf on the dresser, without disarranging
+a single plate. Then, while I was despising Puss for catching mice, I
+heard the gardener's wife giving her the highest praise for being an
+excellent mouser; and to my surprise, I found out that it was the
+regular work for which she was kept in the house.</p>
+
+<p>So, as time went on, we learnt to understand each<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg&nbsp;55]</a></span> other better and
+better, and our companionship was useful in teaching us to be less
+narrow-minded in our estimation of each other and things in general. I
+discovered that it was not necessary for every body to be exactly alike;
+that cats and dogs, and perhaps also men and women, had a right each to
+his own character; and that people must be mutually accommodating, every
+body giving up a little, and no one expecting to make his own way the
+rule for every body. And Pussy learnt herself, and taught me another
+lesson, that every body is one's superior in something, so that any body
+may improve by taking pattern by any body else; I mean, by looking for
+and imitating their good qualities, instead of picking out and snarling
+over their faults.</p>
+
+<p>Time slipped away very happily and imperceptibly. There were few changes
+in our mode of life; though Pussy, from a kitten, in due time became a
+full-grown cat, who left off running after her tail and climbing up the
+banisters, and walked up and down stairs as steadily as I did myself. In
+other respects our relations remained the same; I was the patron and
+protector, she the friend and companion, sharing the same kennel and the
+same platter, and both metamorphosed from the bitterest enemies into the
+comfort and delight of each other's lives.</p>
+
+<p>One day while we were basking in the sunshine,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg&nbsp;56]</a></span> with our eyes half shut,
+and Pussy purring pleasantly, I heard the sound of wheels at a distance.
+Supposing it to be the baker's cart, I roused myself, and ran to the
+gate, according to custom, to see him give in the bread. But long before
+the vehicle came in sight, I smelt the difference between it and the
+baker's cart. It came nearer; I felt in a state of uncommon agitation;
+old recollections and associations returned with extraordinary
+vividness, and my eagerness was intense till the carriage stopped at the
+door. No wonder I had been so much excited; for who should be on the box
+but my old friend John? and who should get out of the carriage but my
+master himself.</p>
+
+<p>Was I not in raptures! And did I not jump and tear about the court in my
+joy! Pussy sat at the window watching my vagaries with astonishment.
+When she understood the state of the case, she was very glad to see our
+master, but expressed her pleasure in a more moderate way than I.</p>
+
+<p>My master and John were cordial in their greetings to every body, but
+they seemed very busy, and spent the rest of the day in walking over the
+place and giving a number of orders. I followed close at their heels,
+very happy to be in their company once more. The gardener and his wife
+made many inquiries about Lily, as I would have done myself if I could;
+and I listened eagerly to my master's replies,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg&nbsp;57]</a></span> though I was rather
+puzzled by some of them. He said she was quite well and very happy, but
+that he missed her sadly.</p>
+
+<p>"I can understand <i>that</i>," thought I, as I looked up at him in sympathy.</p>
+
+<p>I believe he understood me, for he patted my head, saying, "Poor
+Captain, she was very fond of you."</p>
+
+<p>The gardener and his wife said that they had been "quite proud to hear
+the news, for that if any body deserved her it was Sir Rodolph;" and my
+master answered, "True, true; I must not complain of giving her up to
+<i>him</i>."</p>
+
+<p>Although I could not make out her history very accurately; but on
+discussing it with Puss, and putting together everything that we heard
+my master say in the garden, and John say in the kitchen, we came to the
+conclusion that Lily was gone to live at some distance in a home of her
+own; that Craven's good elder brother was her companion there; and that
+her papa was much pleased with the arrangement, though he lost her
+company. It seemed an odd affair to Pussy and me, and we purred and
+pondered over it. Puss confessed that she could not understand a
+person's leaving the house in which she was born. My views were larger.
+I could imagine being contented in any place, provided my friends were
+there too; but the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg&nbsp;58]</a></span> separation from friends seemed an unnatural
+proceeding. However, John had distinctly said that her papa was very
+much pleased; so we decided that human beings were gifted with greater
+powers than ourselves of bearing change, and making themselves happy and
+useful under a variety of circumstances. For we had no doubt of Lily's
+being happy and useful wherever she might be. I could as soon have
+fancied myself encouraging my thieves, or Puss neglecting her mice, as
+Lily idle or out of spirits.</p>
+
+<p>In the course of the next day, John brought the carriage to the door
+again, and invited me to take a drive. Much flattered, I scrambled to
+the box, and sat by his side as steadily as I could, though the movement
+of the carriage was not much to my taste. Several times I could not
+resist trying to get down and run by the side; but John scolded me and
+held me fast, only indulging me with an occasional scamper when we were
+going up hill.</p>
+
+<p>I had not omitted a good-humoured bark to Pussy when we started, by way
+of farewell; for she came to see us off, though she was too humble to
+expect an invitation to join the party. I fully supposed that we should
+return in an hour or two, and that I should have the pleasure of telling
+her my morning's adventures. But we travelled up hill and down hill,
+through strange villages and an unknown country, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg&nbsp;59]</a></span> still we went on
+and on, without any symptoms of turning.</p>
+
+<p>In time we stopped at an inn, where my master had his dinner; and I went
+with John to the stables, and saw him feed the horses, and then followed
+him to the kitchen, where he too ate his dinner, and gave some to me.
+Then we set off on our journey again. Now I thought we were surely going
+home; but no; still straight on through new roads all day till the sun
+went down and the evening grew so dark that I could not see the country;
+and yet no talk of returning. John stopped the carriage, and lighted the
+lamps; and then on again, at the same steady pace, through the unknown
+land.</p>
+
+<p>Tired of travelling in the wrong direction, as it appeared to me, and
+without any object, I curled myself round at John's feet and took a long
+nap. On waking, I found myself in a scene altogether strange to me. We
+were passing through the streets of a city. I sat up and turned my head
+from side to side, quite bewildered by the difference between such a
+place and the country villages in which I had passed my life.</p>
+
+<p>"Ah, you may well look about you," said John; "you are not the only one
+that hasn't known what to make of London."</p>
+
+<p>The noise and confusion were astonishing. Though<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg&nbsp;60]</a></span> it was now so late
+that every body ought to have been asleep in their kennels, the
+innumerable lights in the houses made the night as bright as day. The
+streets were swarming with people; men and women, carriages and horses,
+even dogs and cats, met us every moment. I supposed they must be a kind
+of savages, who came out in the night like wild beasts, and I tried
+barking at them to frighten them back to their dens; but it had no
+effect, and John bade me be quiet. Indeed, I myself perceived that it
+would be a hopeless task to bark at everybody that went by. Their
+numbers were like the autumn leaves falling from the trees in our avenue
+during a high wind, and I could only suppose that next day I should find
+them all swept up in heaps at the side of the road.</p>
+
+<p>At last we stopped before a house; and very glad I was to be ordered to
+jump down and go in, and not at all sorry for the good supper that was
+presently given me. I was too tired even to wonder where I was, or to do
+or think of anything that night except going to sleep; and that I did
+thoroughly, after my long journey.</p>
+
+<p>But next day I was myself again, and up early to explore the premises.
+What I saw at first was not much to my taste. I did not admire my
+kennel; it was decidedly dull, fixed in the corner of a small courtyard
+surrounded by high walls. No trees, no<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg&nbsp;61]</a></span> river, no garden; nothing to be
+seen but a square patch of sky above the walls; nothing to be heard but
+a continual heavy rumbling outside. I soon grew tired of watching the
+clouds, and pacing round the little court; and as soon as the house was
+open, I found my way to the street door. <i>There</i> I could certainly not
+complain of being dull. If London had seemed bustling the night before,
+what was it now by broad daylight, with the full sun shining on the
+countless passengers! I could scarcely keep still myself, with the
+excitement of watching such incessant movement.</p>
+
+<p>To my great disappointment, before long, John called me in, fearing that
+I might stray from the house and be lost or stolen. Of course, I obeyed
+him directly; but he perceived my vexation, and good-naturedly showed me
+a locker under the hall-window, where I might sit and study the humours
+of London at my pleasure. I thought I should never be tired of looking
+out of that window. The scene was so new and charming, that it
+reconciled me at once to my present situation, and even to the hours
+which might necessarily be passed in my ugly kennel. I really preferred
+it to the Manor.</p>
+
+<p>There, even while my master and Lily were living with me, we were a good
+deal left to ourselves. A<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg&nbsp;62]</a></span> few foot passengers and carts might come by
+in the course of the day, carriages and horses perhaps once in a week.
+Visitors, if they came, stayed for hours, so that I had ample time to
+make myself master of their characters, as well as those of their horses
+and dogs. Every body whom I knew at all, I knew intimately; and
+notwithstanding Pussy's hints about rash judgments, I doubt whether I
+was ever really in danger of mistaking an honest man for a thief. But if
+my old home was more favourable to tranquil reflection, certainly this
+place had the advantage of amusement and variety. Here there was no time
+for studying character, nor doing anything else <i>leisurely</i>. I scarcely
+caught a glimpse of any one, before he was out of sight. A quiet nap was
+out of the question; if I so much as winked, I lost the view of
+something. The stream of comers and goers was ever flowing. Nobody stood
+still, nobody turned back; nobody walked up and down, as my master and
+his visitors used on the terrace, while I observed their manners; here,
+as soon as one had passed, his place was taken by another. I watched for
+hours, expecting that some time or other they would all have gone by,
+and the street be left to silence and to me. But nothing of the sort
+happened; they were still going on and on,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg&nbsp;63]</a></span> crossing each other in every
+direction; and for as many as went by, there seemed always twice as many
+yet to come.</p>
+
+<p>In time I grew less confused, and I went out walking with my master or
+John until I knew my way about the streets, so that I could be trusted
+to go out by myself and come safe home again.</p>
+
+<p>The care of the house also devolved once more upon me; and it was a more
+responsible charge than at home, on account of the immense variety of
+characters which I was obliged to understand. As to bribery, whether in
+town or country, I was always incorruptible; but I found it necessary to
+quicken my powers of observation, in order to be up to my duty in
+London. I used sometimes to single out a suspicious individual in the
+crowd, and follow him through two or three streets, till I had
+thoroughly smelt out his character; and before long, I saw all I wanted
+so quickly and accurately, that John himself was ready to submit his
+judgment to mine. I learned to know my man, and to make him know me too;
+and it would have required a daring thief to attempt our house.</p>
+
+<p>I own I soon thoroughly enjoyed London and its ways, and quite left off
+wishing to return to the monotony of the Manor. But though my life was
+pleasant, let nobody do me the injustice to imagine<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg&nbsp;64]</a></span> that either its
+novelty or its occupation could banish from my memory the dear little
+companion who had formed my happiness at home. Forget my Pussy I never
+did, though for a time I seemed contented without her. But, for the
+first few days, I constantly expected to see her arrive. I took it for
+granted that she would be brought to London just as I had been myself;
+and every evening, at the hour of our own arrival, I went to the
+hall-door, and sat patiently on the mat for a considerable time, fully
+expecting every moment that a carriage would stop, and that I should be
+the first to welcome my friend.</p>
+
+<p>But day after day passed without bringing her. Plenty of other cats were
+clambering about the roof of the house, or showing themselves against
+the sky on the top of the wall; but they were all cross and spiteful,
+setting up their backs and snarling at me if I only looked at them. I
+had no wish to make their acquaintance, for there was but one cat in the
+world that I cared for. My love was for the individual, not the race.
+Dogs were numerous in the neighbourhood, and among them were several
+intelligent, cultivated animals with whom I could be on pleasant barking
+terms; but friendship is not made in a day, and these new acquaintances
+could not make up for the want of my cat.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg&nbsp;65]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>As I grew weary of watching for her in vain, I left off waiting at the
+hall-door, and passed my evenings in thinking about her, sometimes by
+the kitchen fire, sometimes in the study, on the rug at my master's
+feet. But the more I thought about her, the more I missed her, till at
+last I quite lost all my spirits. I could not eat my food without her to
+partake of it; I scarcely cared to growl, and took no pleasure in
+barking. In short, I pined for her as I had once done for Lily; and John
+and my master asked each other every day what could be the matter with
+me.</p>
+
+<p>At last, finding it impossible to bear such a life any longer, I began
+to consider whether there was no remedy in my power. I knew that if my
+master objected to any thing, he did not lie on the rug and mope, but he
+worked hard to set it to rights. The more I thought about it, the more I
+perceived that mere thinking would not do; I must set to work and help
+myself. So I took my resolution, and determined to risk every thing
+rather than go on in this dawdling way, fretting my heart out.</p>
+
+<p>But how? Why, how did I come here myself? People had tried to bring me,
+and succeeded; why should not I try to bring Pussy? I might not succeed,
+for I did not conceal from myself the difficulties of the undertaking;
+but what great enterprise<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg&nbsp;66]</a></span> was ever accomplished without danger or
+difficulty? At any rate, it was worth the trial; and if I <i>did</i> succeed,
+Pussy was worth every thing. So, as she would not come, I would go and
+fetch her.</p>
+
+<p>This once decided, it was evident that the sooner I set off the better;
+because the road not being familiar to me, it was important that I
+should travel it again before all traces of our former journey were
+lost. As yet, we had not been so long in London but that I had reason to
+think I should recognise the principal turnings, besides various objects
+on the road. I had been asleep during part of the journey, it is true;
+but I hoped that my acute sense of smell would come to my help when
+eyesight failed.</p>
+
+<p>And here I reflected with satisfaction upon the many advantages I had
+over my master in travelling. First, what a much better nose mine was!
+His seemed of very little use to him up in the air, out of reach of the
+ground. If he had not been able to ask his way, I am sure he could never
+have found it out by smelling. Then, how inconvenient to be obliged to
+carry so many things with him! He could not move without a portmanteau
+or a carpet-bag full of strange clothes, instead of being contented with
+one good coat on his back. I never could understand why any body should
+want more<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg&nbsp;67]</a></span> than one coat. Mine was always new, always comfortable,
+suited to all seasons, and fitting beautifully, having adapted itself to
+my growth at all stages of my life, without any attention from me. <i>I</i>
+never had any trouble with tailors, snipping and measuring, trying on
+and altering. My coat would dry on me too, whereas my poor master could
+not even jump into the river without taking his off; if it so much as
+rained, he wanted an umbrella. Then, he never seemed able to run any
+distance. For a few hundred yards it was all very well, but after that
+he began to walk; and if he made a single day's journey, he was obliged
+to be helped by a horse. Poor man! I pitied him; and yet I never for a
+moment hesitated to acknowledge him as my master; for, with all his
+detects, I felt that he was in possession of some faculty
+incomprehensible to me, but which overpowered a thousand and a thousand
+times the utmost animal superiority.</p>
+
+<p>But to return to my own adventures. I determined to find my way to my
+native village as a dog best might, without delay. So the next morning I
+set off, following my nose, which was my best guide, through the
+intricacies of the London streets. More than once I took a wrong turn;
+but after going a little way up the street, I always discovered my
+mistake, and retraced my steps.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg&nbsp;68]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Once I met two gentlemen whom I knew. One asked the other if I was not
+my master's dog; the other looked round and called, "Captain! Captain!"
+I was very near wagging my tail and looking up at the familiar sound,
+but I fortunately recollected myself in time. As he was not my master, I
+was not bound to be obedient; so I held my ears and tail still by a
+strong determination, and trotted on, taking no notice.</p>
+
+<p>Another time, as I was sniffing the ground where several streets
+branched off, I heard an ill-toned voice say, "There's a dog that has
+lost his master."</p>
+
+<p>"Fine dog, too," said another; "there will be a good reward advertised
+for him."</p>
+
+<p>"Humph, there's more to be made by him than that," replied the first;
+and as I looked up at him, I recognised the very man whom I had formerly
+prevented from breaking into my master's country house. I growled
+fiercely; and if he had attempted to approach me, I was prepared for a
+spring at his throat.</p>
+
+<p>"He seems to have a spite against you; best leave him alone," said the
+other. And the two turned away, evidently aware that it would not be
+safe to meddle with me; and I once more pursued my journey in quiet.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg&nbsp;69]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Having my own reasons for not wishing to attract attention, I jostled
+against as few passengers as possible, and did my utmost to keep clear
+of inquisitive dogs or arrogant horses, so that I met with few
+obstacles, and before mid-day arrived safely at the outskirts of London.
+Then my way became much plainer; a country road, with hedges and fields
+on each side, was easily tracked; and I could hold up my head in comfort
+as I ran along at a good pace, instead of keeping my nose close to the
+ground for fear of losing my way.</p>
+
+<p>I came to a place where four roads met, and there, though but for a few
+moments, I was perplexed. There was a sign-post, but that was nothing to
+me; it might have been useful to my poor master, but to me it was only
+one of his many encumbrances, which were superseded by my nose.</p>
+
+<p>So I followed my nose up one of the roads; it would not do. Up a second
+and a third; still my nose refused assent. As there was but one road
+more, I had no further choice; so I troubled my nose no more, but
+galloped joyfully ahead without any difficulty on the subject, wondering
+whether my master would have found the way by his reason as surely as I
+by my instinct.</p>
+
+<p>As the day went on, I began to grow uncommonly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg&nbsp;70]</a></span> hungry; that is to say,
+hungry for <i>me</i>, who had never yet known what it was to want a meal.
+Accustomed to regular daily food as often as I required it, I do not
+suppose that in my comfortable life I ever knew what real hunger was,
+such hunger as is felt by poor creatures with but scanty food for one
+day, and uncertain even of <i>that</i> for the next. But I felt that I should
+like my dinner; and, for the first time in my life, was called upon to
+find it for myself.</p>
+
+<p>And, really, when a person has been accustomed to see set before him
+every day, at his own hour, on his own platter, a supply of bread and
+meat nicely mixed, with perhaps some pudding to finish it, and no
+trouble required on his part but to eat it tidily, and say "Thank you"
+after his fashion, it is no small puzzle suddenly to be obliged to
+provide his own dinner from beginning to end&mdash;catching, cooking, and
+serving it up. There are more in the world than I who would know how to
+do nothing but eat it. If I had been a wild dog, used to the habits of
+savage life, I might have hunted down some smaller animal as wild as
+myself, torn it to pieces, and devoured it raw; but I was a civilised
+creature, so altered by education, that in my hunting days I always
+brought the game to my master instead of eating it myself; and here, on
+the London<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg&nbsp;71]</a></span> high road, there was not even game to be caught. I really
+was quite at a loss what to do.</p>
+
+<p>In course of time I came up with a traveller sitting under a hedge,
+eating a lump of bread and cheese. I would not have accepted bread and
+cheese at home if it had been offered me, but now I stopped in front of
+the eater and began to beg for some, licking my lips, and wagging my
+tail in my most insinuating manner.</p>
+
+<p>He threw me a scrap of coarse bread, saying, "There's for you; but I
+dare say you are too well fed to eat it."</p>
+
+<p>His supposition would have been true enough the day before; but hunger
+cures daintiness, and now I was glad of such a mouthful. I bolted it in
+an instant, and looked for more. He threw me one other crust, saying
+that was all he could spare; and, finishing the rest himself, went on
+his way, leaving me as hungry as ever.</p>
+
+<p>By and by, in passing through a village, I came to a butcher's shop. The
+butcher was not in sight, and meat was spread in the most tempting
+manner on the board.</p>
+
+<p>"How easily," thought I, "I could steal that nice raw chop, and run away
+with it! Nobody could see me, and I do not believe any body could catch
+me."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg&nbsp;72]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><i>Steal it</i>&mdash;the thought startled me. Brought up from my earliest
+puppyhood in the strictest principles of honesty; able, as I imagined,
+to see the best-stocked larder, or the most amply-supplied table,
+without even wishing to touch what was not my own;&mdash;was I now, on the
+very first temptation, the first time in my life that I had ever been
+really hungry, to forget all I had been taught, and to become a <i>thief</i>?
+Was it only the fear of blows that had kept me honest? Was my honesty
+worthy the name, if I was only honest when I had no temptation to be
+otherwise? I was ashamed of myself, and turning from the shop, passed on
+with drooping ears.</p>
+
+<p>Presently I met with a dog so extra fat as to show plainly that he had
+never gone without his dinner, and yet he was growling over a bone as if
+he had been starving. On looking more closely at him, I perceived that
+he was in possession of two bones, either of them enough for one dog;
+but he was unable to make use of one, for fear of the other's being
+taken from him. So there he lay, with his paws upon both, growling
+instead of enjoying himself. He was a larger dog than I, but not nearly
+so strong, being grown helpless and unwieldly through long habits of
+greediness and laziness. I saw that I could easily master him<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg&nbsp;73]</a></span> and take
+one of his bones by brute force, and at first I felt inclined to help
+myself by this means. I thought I had a good right so to do. I actually
+wanted the necessaries of life, while he was revelling in superfluous
+luxury. Was I not justified, nay more, was I not bound in common sense
+and justice to take from him what he did not want, and give it to myself
+who did want it? Even if I robbed him of one of his bones, I should
+leave him as much as I took away.</p>
+
+<p><i>Robbed</i>&mdash;another awkward word! I paused again. Assault and robbery were
+perhaps not so mean as sneaking theft, but were they more allowable? The
+bones were his own, his property; given to him by some one who had a
+right to dispose of them; and though at this moment I might wish for a
+more equal distribution, I had sense enough to know that it would be a
+bad state of things if every dog were to seize upon every neighbouring
+dog's bones at his own discretion. It might suit me at this moment, but
+to-morrow a stronger dog might think that <i>I</i> had too much, and insist
+upon my relinquishing half of <i>my</i> dinner. Who was to be the judge?
+Every dog would differ in opinion as to how much was his own fair share,
+and how much might be left to his neighbour. No large dog would allow
+another to dine while he himself<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg&nbsp;74]</a></span> was hungry; and it would end by the
+strongest getting all the bones, while the poor, inferior curs were
+worse off than ever. So I determined to respect the rights of property,
+for the sake of small dogs as well as for my own.</p>
+
+<p>After all, starvation was not inevitable. It might be possible to get a
+dinner without fighting for it. I sat down opposite my new acquaintance,
+and entered into civil conversation with him. I found him much more
+friendly than I expected. He had certainly been accustomed to more
+indulgence and idleness than was good for him, but his natural
+disposition was not entirely spoilt. He was the peculiar pet of a lady,
+who thought it kindness to cram him from morning till night with food
+that disagreed with him, to provide him with no occupation, and to
+deprive him of healthy exercise, so that no wonder he had grown lazy and
+selfish; but his native spirit was not entirely extinguished, and he
+assured me that a bare bone to growl over, and a little comfortable rain
+and mud to disport himself in like a dog, were still the greatest treats
+that could be offered to him. His temper had been farther soured by the
+spite and envy of dogs around him, who, less petted themselves, and not
+aware how little his petting contributed to his comfort, grudged him
+every thing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg&nbsp;75]</a></span> that he possessed, and lost no opportunity of snapping and
+snarling at him.</p>
+
+<p>When I reflected on the difference between his circumstances and my own,
+I felt more inclined to pity than to blame him; but though I condoled
+with him kindly, and whined in sympathy, I took care to give him the
+best advice in my power, and to suggest such changes in his own conduct
+as might tend to better his lot.</p>
+
+<p>He listened with patience and candour, and showed his gratitude by
+treating me with the most cordial hospitality. He gave me an excellent
+bone, and offered to share his kennel with me; but after my dinner and a
+nap I was so thoroughly refreshed, that I preferred continuing my
+journey. He pressed me to call on him in my way back, provided I
+returned alone; but honestly confessed that if I was accompanied by a
+cat, he feared that the force of habit might be too strong to allow of
+his being as polite to her as he could wish. Remembering my own early
+prejudices, I had no right to blame him; and we parted excellent
+friends, though I declined his invitation.</p>
+
+<p>I met with no more adventures or difficulties. Even my night's lodging
+gave me no trouble; for when it was growing dark, and I felt too tired
+to run any farther, I espied a heap of straw thrown<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg&nbsp;76]</a></span> out by the
+stable-door of a roadside inn, and I soon scratched and smoothed it into
+as comfortable a bed as dog need wish. By break of day I was on my
+travels again; and being now near my native village, in a road of which
+I knew every step, I had no further perplexity, and by breakfast-time
+arrived at my old home.</p>
+
+<p>It had never occurred to me that any body would be surprised to see me.
+Having always met with a hearty welcome, I expected one as a matter of
+course; but I certainly never anticipated being received with a shout of
+astonishment, and to this day I cannot understand why they were all so
+amazed. But so it was. When the gardener opened the gate and saw me
+sitting outside, he started as if I had been a strange dog going to fly
+at him; and instead of speaking to me, began calling as loud as he could
+to his wife:</p>
+
+<p>"Peggy! why, Peggy, make haste, I say. Here's the dog! How did he ever
+come here?"</p>
+
+<p>The old lady came bustling along at double her usual speed, and I
+thought she would immediately explain my appearance; but she seemed even
+more surprised than her husband; she fairly screamed.</p>
+
+<p>"Well to be sure!" exclaimed she as usual, as soon as she had recovered
+her breath; "well to be sure! Did any body ever see such a thing?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg&nbsp;77]</a></span> How
+can he have come? Do you think master is on the road?"</p>
+
+<p>"I'll run down to the turnpike and see," answered her husband; and off
+he set, without bestowing a word upon me; his wife meanwhile, with her
+apron thrown over her head, straining her eyes to look after him. I
+wagged my tail, and patted her with my paw, and did my best to make her
+understand that I was there on my own account; but her head was too full
+of fancies to attend to the reality, and she persisted in looking out
+for my master who was not coming, and neglecting me who was there under
+her eyes. So I left her to find out the state of the case as she could,
+and turned my steps towards the house, where I hoped to meet a friend,
+who would think nothing so natural as my being at her side.</p>
+
+<p>I peeped in at the kitchen window, and there sat my Pussy, in her old
+place before the fire, looking just as when I left her&mdash;the neatest,
+whitest, softest, and gentlest of creatures. <i>She</i> was not surprised to
+see me. She winked and blinked a little, as if she was dreaming of me at
+that moment, and was afraid to open her eyes more than half-way, lest
+the dream should vanish; but at last she opened them altogether, and the
+dream turned to reality. Then, had we not a happy meeting!<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg&nbsp;78]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>There was much to tell on both sides before we could properly discuss
+the grand object of my coming, and our time was a good deal taken up by
+a constant succession of visitors; not dogs or cats, as might have been
+expected, but boys and girls, men and women, friends of the servants,
+all pouring in to see <i>me</i>. From the time that the gardener and his wife
+had satisfied themselves that my master was not coming with me, they
+seemed to consider my arrival stranger than ever, and to think it
+necessary to inform every body of the circumstances,&mdash;though I should
+certainly have supposed there would be more wonder in seeing two persons
+than one. Pussy did not approve of so much company, as she always
+disliked to be stared at; I, being of a less retiring turn of mind, was
+perhaps rather flattered by the notice; but, by the time evening came,
+even I was glad to have the house quiet. Then we lay by the fire, and
+explained all our feelings to each other.</p>
+
+<p>I described to my friend how unhappy I had been without her, and how
+amidst all the pleasures of London I had languished for her company,
+till I could bear my loneliness no longer; and I entreated her, for my
+sake, to relinquish all her present habits, and to try a new life and a
+new home.</p>
+
+<p>She heard me with much sympathy, and owned that she too had been
+unhappy; and that, notwithstanding<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg&nbsp;79]</a></span> the placid exterior which she had
+thought it right to keep up, she had missed me quite as much as I missed
+her. But she did not at once, as I hoped, agree eagerly to my proposal
+of accompanying me to London. She hesitated. The journey seemed an
+arduous undertaking. What strange dogs she might meet! what showers of
+rain! what obstacles of all kinds, that had never suggested themselves
+to me!</p>
+
+<p>I strenuously combated all her objections, trying to convince her that
+the journey which seemed so formidable would turn out a mere
+pleasure-excursion. I did not mind getting wet myself; but as she did, I
+was glad to assure her that there was plenty of shelter in case of rain.
+Indeed, one might suppose that the whole road had been laid out for the
+express convenience of cat travellers; there were such hedges, trees,
+stiles, sheltered nooks, and sunny banks in every direction. Then as for
+strange dogs, was I not there to protect her? was I not a match for any
+dog? and did she not know that I would gladly shed the last drop of my
+blood in her cause, besides enjoying a fight on my own account? She
+sighed, but her sigh was a nearer approach to a purr than before, though
+her objections were far from being finished.</p>
+
+<p>She owned that she dreaded change. She had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg&nbsp;80]</a></span> her own habits and her own
+duties; she had been used all her life to that same house, with its
+cellars and its pantries under her especial charge, and she was afraid
+that in a new place she might be idle and uncomfortable.</p>
+
+<p>This seemed to me a most unreasonable punctilio. I allowed that she
+might fairly prefer the country, but I could not for a moment admit that
+a town life need be idle. Did she suppose there were no mice in London?
+I could answer for the contrary. The servants were perpetually
+complaining not only of mice, but of rats; and only the day before I
+started, I had heard them declare that they could not do without a cat
+any longer. A most active life was open to her. The only danger was,
+that she might find too much to do, and that her love of neatness and
+comfort might be revolted by the dark crannies and gloomy cellars in
+which she had to seek her work. But as for being <i>useless</i>, that was
+indeed an idle fear any where for any body who wished to work.</p>
+
+<p>She listened attentively, and began to purr in a more decided manner.</p>
+
+<p>"Still," said she, "I am afraid they will miss me here."</p>
+
+<p>"No doubt," I replied; "but their loss can be remedied. A house like
+this can be kept in order by a very inferior cat to yourself; and after
+all, you are<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg&nbsp;81]</a></span> cherished here chiefly because it was Lily's wish. Peggy
+can easily find another kitten; and you know she has often said that
+white cats were not to her taste, and she should much prefer a tabby."</p>
+
+<p>"True, true," murmured Puss; and seeing that she was gradually
+softening, I continued to place every inducement before her in the
+strongest light. I represented the present unguarded state of the sugar,
+candles, preserves, &amp;c., in a manner to touch the feelings of any
+domestic cat, and dwelt at some length on the improvement that must take
+place in the house under her vigilant superintendence. And I finally
+crowned my persuasions with the tenderest appeal to her affection for
+me, drawing a vivid picture of the difference to me and to my happiness
+that would result from her companionship. Pussy had for some time been
+wavering, and before I had finished my harangue she purred a full
+consent.</p>
+
+<p>I need not describe my delight at thus gaining the great object of my
+life. Some feelings should not be made public property. My happiness was
+not of a nature to be boisterous, but it was such as to satisfy Pussy
+that she had decided aright.</p>
+
+<p>At break of day we began our grand adventure, as we were anxious to lose
+no time; and we had been so well fed over-night, that we could defy
+hunger for the next twenty-four hours. When I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg&nbsp;82]</a></span> had set out on my
+solitary journey, I had felt very easy about my accommodations and mode
+of travelling; but now that I had my less hardy companion, many cares
+crowded on my mind, and I pondered so profoundly over every arrangement,
+that Puss seemed the most cheerful and courageous of the two. Indeed,
+from the moment she agreed to my request, she generously gave to the
+winds all her former objections, and thought of nothing but helping me,
+and giving as little trouble as possible herself.</p>
+
+<p>We passed through our native village quietly. All curious observers had
+visited us the night before; and our friendship was so well known, that
+the sight of us together attracted no notice beyond a few kind words;
+but on emerging into the great world of the London road, we were obliged
+to hold a consultation upon our proceedings. Though our object was the
+same, our views of the best means of attaining it did not quite agree;
+Pussy's idea being to avoid fighting, mine to be prepared for it.
+Doubtless a combination of both principles was our true policy.</p>
+
+<p>We reconnoitred our route. Fields on each side were divided from the
+road by hedges, and there was a raised path between the hedge and the
+road. We decided that I should run along the open path, looking out for
+every danger, while Pussy, as much<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg&nbsp;83]</a></span> out of sight as possible, crept
+along the field on the other side of the hedge. Though this arrangement
+separated us, it was by far the safest; the thick green hedge hid the
+cat from observation, and there were plenty of gaps through which we
+could take an opportunity of peeping at each other, unmarked by any one
+else. Moreover, the fields had attractions for Pussy besides mere
+security; she could catch birds and field-mice, and thus secure a
+comfortable meal at any moment.</p>
+
+<p>In this manner we proceeded pleasantly for many miles; I trotting
+steadily onwards, and Puss creeping behind the hedge at her usual
+stealthy pace. When prudence permitted, we enlivened our journey by
+various agreeable diversions. Sometimes on coming to a paling or a wall,
+Puss jumped up with her usual activity, and ran along the top.
+Occasionally we made a halt, while she climbed a pleasant tree, and I
+reposed on the grass under its shade. Or she would rest on a sunny bank,
+while I amused myself by watching any passing carriages and horses in
+the road. Once or twice we left the beaten path in search of water, but
+we were careful not to wander far out of our way.</p>
+
+<p>In going through one village, we observed some trellis-work on the gable
+end of a house, affording facilities of ascent quite irresistible to a
+cat of spirit.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg&nbsp;84]</a></span> Puss was on the perpendicular wall in an instant,
+climbing hand over hand, or rather paw over paw, till she reached the
+roof. There she revelled in her favourite exaltation, and enjoyed
+herself thoroughly in darting over the slates, and making excursions up
+and down the chimney stacks. As there were several houses adjoining, she
+had the opportunity of a considerable promenade along the gutters, very
+satisfactory till she came to the end of the row; but there,
+unfortunately, she found no means of coming down again. There was no
+trellis; and a blank wall, without a single projection to afford a
+footing, was beyond even her dexterity. There was nothing to be done but
+to retrace her steps, I meanwhile running along the footpath, and
+looking up with some anxiety.</p>
+
+<p>But we were not obliged to go back very far. The middle house was an
+inn, with a sign-post before it, from which hung a picture of a red lion
+rampant,&mdash;an ugly beast, and far from royal. I thought I would have
+shaken him to pieces if he had been alive, but under present
+circumstances I was very glad to see him. Puss sprang from the roof to
+the cross-beam which supported him, and from thence easily scrambled
+down his post to the ground. Very glad I was to have her at my side
+again, and to make our way through the village unmolested.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 411px;">
+<img src="images/img4.jpg" width="411" height="500" alt="THE JOURNEY TO LONDON. Page 84" title="" />
+<span class="caption">THE JOURNEY TO LONDON. <small><a href="#Page_84">Page 84</a></small></span>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg&nbsp;85]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>All these freaks had rather hindered us, as people cannot go out of
+their way for amusement without wasting more time than they reckon upon;
+and I now urged Puss to resist such temptations, and to keep up a steady
+walk on her side of the hedge. Not being able to climb myself, I had no
+sympathy with her great love of the art; and, in fact, I had sometimes
+considered her power of ascending heights, and finding footing in places
+inaccessible to me, as a fault in her character. But as I did not wish
+to be ill-natured and disagreeable, I indulged her taste, though
+believing it to be useless, if not dangerous, and often persuading her
+to keep to the beaten path in every thing.</p>
+
+<p>But I thought myself wiser than I was, and I had to learn by experience
+that every different nature and endowment may have its peculiar
+advantages. Before we were out of sight of that village, the very talent
+which I had despised was the means of saving Pussy's life.</p>
+
+<p>The hedgerow, which had hitherto been our safeguard and screen from
+impertinent observation, had come to an end; the fields were separated
+from the road only by an open ditch, and young trees enclosed in palings
+were planted at regular intervals along the path. We were trotting
+leisurely, thinking of no mischief, when at a turn in the road there<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg&nbsp;86]</a></span>
+suddenly darted out upon us a fierce and powerful mastiff. To leap the
+ditch and be at Pussy's side was the work of a moment both for him and
+for me, though with very different intentions; he to assail, I to defend
+her. The attack was so sudden, that Puss had not time to use her weapons
+to any purpose; she just managed to give one spirited claw at his nose
+with a loud hiss, and then sprang faster and higher than I had ever seen
+her spring before, and gained the top of the paling just in time to
+escape his seizure. If she had not been able to jump, she would have
+been a dead cat. Even then she was not quite out of his reach, and he
+flew after her; but I threw myself upon him while she bounded to the
+little tree, and climbed its branches till she gained a place of safety.</p>
+
+<p>Then the mastiff and I had a battle royal. The very recollection of it
+at this day does me good. We were all in the highest state of
+excitement. Puss in the tree, her back showing high above her ears, and
+her tail swelled to the size of a fox's brush, puffing and spitting at
+her enemy like a snake or a steam-engine; the mastiff running round the
+paling on his hind legs, banging up against it on every side, and
+barking and howling with rage; I, no less furious, howling and barking
+at him in return, and galloping round the tree as wildly as he did.
+Determined<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg&nbsp;87]</a></span> to try every thing, he turned to dash round the other way,
+and we came full upon each other. I need not describe the consequences.
+"Greek" may "meet Greek," and I leave the result to the learned; but if
+any body had ever doubted whether when dog meets dog, "then comes the
+tug of war," now was the time to convince themselves. We certainly did
+tug at each other most decidedly. Our strength and courage were so
+nearly equal, that for some time the victory was doubtful. Again and
+again each hero, bitten, scratched, and bruised, rolled in the dust, and
+rose up again shaking ears and coat, ready to rush upon his adversary
+with undiminished spirit. The final issue seemed to depend entirely upon
+the power of holding out longest. As I scorn to boast, I candidly
+confess that I was many times ready to ask for quarter and own myself
+beaten: indeed, if I had only been fighting on my own account, I must
+have yielded; but the goodness of my cause supported me, and in defence
+of my friend I performed exploits of valour that I did not know to be in
+my nature. At last I had the satisfaction to see my enemy fairly turn
+round, and with drooping head, and tail between his legs, sneak off to
+his own home in a very different state of mind and body from that in
+which he left it. I sent after him a bark of triumph that made the woods
+re-echo;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg&nbsp;88]</a></span> but my best reward was in my Pussy's thanks and praises, and
+the happy consciousness of being her successful champion.</p>
+
+<p>I required a little rest after my exertions; but before long we were on
+the move again, and met with no further impediments till we arrived at
+our resting-place for the night. This was under the shelter of an empty
+barn, rather infested by rats, so that Puss found both food and lodging.
+Tastes differ: I was glad of a comfortable roof and a warm corner; but
+though Puss pressed me to partake of her provision, I preferred going
+without a meal for once in my life to sharing a rat.</p>
+
+<p>We were up and dressed time enough for the rising sun to meet us on our
+road. I have few more "incidents of travel" to recount; indeed, beyond a
+little difficulty in crossing a puddle or two without wetting my
+comrade's feet, or dirtying her white stockings, we arrived at the
+outskirts of London without hindrance.</p>
+
+<p>But I feared that it would not be so easy to creep unobserved through
+the busy streets, and I grew very uncomfortable when I found myself and
+my companion in the midst of the throng. I was anxious to conceal my
+fears from Puss, lest I should alarm her also; but her penetration saw
+through my forced cheerfulness, and obliged me to confess my
+apprehensions.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg&nbsp;89]</a></span> True to her determination of making the best of every
+thing, she was more courageous than I. With her usual good sense, she
+pointed out to me that the greater the surrounding numbers, the better
+the chance of any individuals passing unnoticed; that it was the idle
+who hindered or molested others; and that this multitude of people,
+intent upon objects of their own, would have neither time nor
+inclination to annoy us.</p>
+
+<p>"I know by experience, my dear Captain," continued she, "that when I am
+properly occupied with my own rats, I have no temptation to interfere
+with my neighbour's mice. It is when I have been sitting too long
+purring in the sunshine with nothing to do, that I am in danger of being
+mischievous or troublesome."</p>
+
+<p>"True," I answered; "I can bear witness to that myself: and I am not
+afraid of the industrious people, if they noticed us, it would be
+kindly. But these are not <i>all</i> busy,&mdash;some may be at leisure to worry
+us; and I scarcely know how we are to pass unobserved; I fear we are
+very remarkable. At home you know how much was said about us."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, <i>at home</i>," she replied, with a significant curl of her whiskers,
+"but at home we stood alone; there was no one to compare us with. I
+fancy that many are thought great personages in their own<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg&nbsp;90]</a></span> little
+village, who would be quite unnoticed elsewhere. I hope that may be our
+case."</p>
+
+<p>"You <i>hope</i>!" exclaimed I, almost with a bark; for in spite of my fears,
+I by no means admired Pussy's modest style of consolation. Mortification
+got the better of prudence, and I felt that I would rather fight every
+day and all day long than not be thought worth fighting with.</p>
+
+<p>"I hope it for myself," she answered; "but I do not expect you to be of
+the same opinion. I am content to shun danger and avoid blame; but it is
+your nature to meet peril and to court praise."</p>
+
+<p>"You are rather inconsistent," interrupted I, somewhat nettled: "one of
+your objections to coming with me was, that you thought you could be of
+no use in London; and now you are wishing to be altogether unnoticed."</p>
+
+<p>"I do not see any contradiction," she replied; "one may be useful
+without being conspicuous. If I can fill my own little post quietly, so
+as to please you and my master, I am content that no one else should
+even know of my existence. My climbing exploits are only for my own
+pleasure, as you know. I have no ambition."</p>
+
+<p>"Such a life would not satisfy me at all," I answered.</p>
+
+<p>"So much the better," said Puss; "there would<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg&nbsp;91]</a></span> be few great things done
+in the world if no one were more energetic or daring than I. It is a
+capital thing that there should be such as you, able and willing to
+defend the weak, and to stand up for the right without fear of
+consequences. It is your proper part, and I am truly grateful to you for
+acting it so nobly as you did yesterday."</p>
+
+<p>This view of the matter soothed my feelings; and for the present, at any
+rate, I was glad that Pussy's retiring disposition should have its way.
+The more she crept through by-ways and slunk into corners, the better I
+was pleased, for I was too fond of her to wish to see her in danger for
+the sake of my own honour and glory.</p>
+
+<p>So with care and caution we went on our way, taking every means to avoid
+not only dogs and boys, but even older and wiser beings; and at last,
+under lamp-posts and door-posts, through kennels and gutters, now
+creeping along the ledge of a wall, now hiding under the shelter of a
+friendly porch, always watching each other at every step we took, we
+arrived at our own door.</p>
+
+<p>All necessity for caution being now happily at an end, I indulged myself
+in a bark loud enough to rouse the house, though too joyous to alarm it.
+Presently our good friend John appeared in the area, talking to himself
+while going about his work.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg&nbsp;92]</a></span> We heard him say in a hesitating manner, "I
+could not help almost fancying that I heard my poor Captain's bark; but
+I know it is nothing but my folly, always thinking of him. He's been and
+got himself stolen by some of those London dog-stealers. <i>I</i> shall never
+see him again, poor fellow."</p>
+
+<p>I barked again. John looked up, and there I stood, only too happy to be
+able to contradict him. Extraordinary, that knowing me as he did, he
+should have thought me capable of deserting my best friends and letting
+myself be enticed away by a dog-stealer! I hoped I had more sense than
+that.</p>
+
+<p>John said not another word, but rushed up stairs and threw the
+street-door wide open. In my rapture at meeting him I forgot all
+ceremony; and standing bolt upright on my hind-legs, with my fore-paws
+on his shoulders, I licked his face all over. But he was too glad to see
+me to take offence at my familiarity, and patted my head and returned my
+caresses with cordiality equal to my own.</p>
+
+<p>At first he did not see my little fellow-traveller, who, in her modest
+reluctance to be intrusive, held back during the rough greetings between
+John and me. But in proper time she felt it due to herself to come
+forward and assert her presence; so, setting her tail bolt upright like
+a standard, she began pacing softly backwards and forwards, purring
+affectionately,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg&nbsp;93]</a></span> and rubbing herself against John's legs at every turn.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, Pussy," said John, as he stooped to stroke her head, "it would
+take a good many human creatures to surprise me as much as you two dumb
+animals have done. But come in. Come, Captain, my boy; come, little
+Puss."</p>
+
+<p>So saying, he ushered us across the hall to our master's study, and
+tapped at the door.</p>
+
+<p>"Come in," called our master.</p>
+
+<p>John opened the door, and stood there without speaking a word, while
+Puss and I walked forwards to our master's chair, she purring and I
+wagging my tail as usual, expecting him to say something civil, but not
+prepared for astonishment in our wise master. I thought we had left all
+that sort of thing behind with Peggy. But my master looked up and down,
+at John and us, us and John again, several times in silence. At last he
+said, "It is the most extraordinary thing I ever saw. How and when did
+they come?"</p>
+
+<p>"Not five minutes ago, sir," answered John; "both together, as you see;
+and to judge from their dusty look, they must have walked all the way."</p>
+
+<p>"No doubt," replied my master. "On what day did we miss the dog?"</p>
+
+<p>"Four days ago, sir, after I told you how he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg&nbsp;94]</a></span> was moping. He must have
+found his way all alone to the Manor, and brought the other back with
+him. It beats every thing that ever <i>I</i> heard."</p>
+
+<p>"He must, indeed. Wonderful!" said my master.</p>
+
+<p>"To be sure I did," thought I. "Where is the wonder?"</p>
+
+<p>But as we were very hungry, we left John and our master to express their
+surprise to each other, while we turned our steps towards the kitchen.
+Even there, before we got any dinner, we were doomed to encounter a
+sharp fire of exclamations from the servants; and really such incessant
+expressions of amazement began to be almost mortifying. Approbation is
+pleasant enough, but astonishment gives the idea that people had not
+thought one capable of even one's own little good deeds. However, we
+bore it all with good humour, and were soon caressed and fed to our
+complete satisfaction.</p>
+
+<p>The rest of our story may be told in a few words. Puss was soon
+domesticated on her London hearth, and pursuing her avocations with her
+customary skill and spirit. She was a universal favourite, though just
+at first she had to endure a little gossip about her history and
+appearance; some pronouncing her to be very pretty, others seeing
+nothing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg&nbsp;95]</a></span> particular in her worth so much trouble. But in due time her
+reputation was firmly established as the prettiest cat and the best
+mouser in the neighbourhood.</p>
+
+<p>While she made herself useful in her department, I was not idle in mine;
+and I think I may safely say that no house could boast of a more
+faithful and vigilant guardian. It was difficult to determine which of
+us was most useful to our master; Puss in preserving his property from
+"rats and mice and such small deer," or I, in keeping off larger
+depredators. Our joint business was to take care of the house, and
+thorough care we took, and thoroughly were our services appreciated and
+rewarded. Welcome guests on kitchen hearthstone or on drawing-room rug,
+treated as pets by the servants, as friends by our master, and agreeable
+company by his acquaintances, no animals have ever passed a happier
+life. Lily has often been to see us; and next to the pleasure of being
+once more caressed by her own hand, was that of hearing our story told
+to her husband by her own lips, and our friendship mentioned with
+approbation to her little son.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>It may seem absurd to suppose that a human being can profit by the
+history of a dog; but I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg&nbsp;96]</a></span> believe that no creature is too insignificant,
+and no event too trivial, to teach some lesson to those capable of
+learning it; and a moral to this little story may be found in the
+advantage of making the best of untoward circumstances, and of
+cultivating kindness and goodwill in place of prejudice and dislike. In
+short, to any, small or great, who have hitherto found or fancied their
+companions uncongenial, I would propose Puss and Captain as an example
+of a new and better method of</p>
+<div class="padding">
+<p class="center">"LIVING LIKE CAT AND DOG."</p>
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+
+
+<p class="center"><b><small>DAVID STOW, ESQ.</small></b></p>
+
+<p><big>Bible Emblems;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>With Practical Hints to Sabbath School Teachers and Parents in
+conducting Training Lessons. By <span class="smcap">David Stow</span>, Esq. Fcap. 8vo.;
+<i>1s.</i> sewed, <i>1s. 6d.</i> cloth.</p></div>
+
+
+<p class="center"><b><small>MISS JEWSBURY.</small></b></p>
+
+<p><big>Angelo;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, the Pine Forest among the Alps. By <span class="smcap">Geraldine E. Jewsbury</span>,
+author of "The Adopted Child," etc. With Illustrations by <span class="smcap">John
+Absolon</span>. Small 4to; price <i>2s. 6d.</i> cloth; <i>3s. 6d.</i> coloured,
+gilt edges.</p>
+
+<p>"A book that is sure to be read by a child with interest and
+delight."&mdash;<i>Manchester Examiner</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>The Martyr Land;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, Tales of the Vaudois. By the Author of "Our Eastern
+Empire," etc. Frontispiece by <span class="smcap">J. Gilbert</span>. Royal 16mo; price
+<i>3s. 6d.</i> cloth.</p>
+
+<p>"A narrative of one of the noblest struggles in Christian
+history, and with this history Protestant youth cannot be made
+too early acquainted."&mdash;<i>London Literary Review</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"We must pronounce the authoress to be an exceedingly
+successful writer of books for children. While practical
+lessons run throughout, they are never obtruded."&mdash;<i>English
+Churchman</i>.</p></div>
+
+
+<p class="center"><b><small>MRS. R. LEE'S LAST WORK.</small></b></p>
+
+<p><big>Sir Thomas;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, the Adventures of a Cornish Baronet in Western Africa. By
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. R. Lee</span>, Author of "The African Wanderers," etc. With
+Illustrations by <span class="smcap">J. Gilbert</span>. Fcap. 8vo; <i>3s. 6d.</i> cloth; <i>4s.
+6d.</i> coloured.</p>
+
+<p>"The intimate knowledge of African customs possessed by <span class="smcap">Mrs.
+Lee</span>, enables her to convey ample information in a most
+pleasing form."&mdash;<i>Britannia</i>.</p></div>
+
+
+<p class="center"><b><small>ALFRED CROWQUILL.</small></b></p>
+
+<p><big>Tales of Magic and Meaning.</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Written and Illustrated by <span class="smcap">Alfred Crowquill</span>, Author of "Funny
+Leaves for the Younger Branches," "The Careless Chicken,"
+"Picture Fables," etc. Small 4to.; price <i>3s. 6d.</i> cloth; <i>4s.
+6d.</i> coloured.</p>
+
+<p>"Cleverly written, abounding in frolic and pathos, and
+inculcates so pure a moral, that we must pronounce him a very
+fortunate little fellow, who catches these "Tales of Magic,"
+as a windfall from "The Christmas Tree."&mdash;<i>Athen&aelig;um</i>.</p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_a_5" id="Page_a_5">[Pg&nbsp;5]</a></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="padding">
+<div class="bbox">
+<p class="center"><b><small>M. AND E. KIRBY.</small></b></p>
+
+<p><big>The Talking Bird;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, the Little Girl who knew what was going to happen. By <span class="smcap">Mary</span>
+and <span class="smcap">Elizabeth Kirby</span>, Authors of "The Discontented Children,"
+etc. With Illustrations by <span class="smcap">H.K. Browne</span> (<span class="smcap">Phiz</span>). Small 4to;
+price <i>2s. 6d.</i> cloth; <i>3s. 6d.</i> coloured, gilt edges.</p>
+
+<p>"With great good sense, and valuable moral teaching, much fun
+and amusement if wisely intermixed."&mdash;<i>Britannia</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>The Discontented Children;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>And How they were Cured. By <span class="smcap">M.</span> and <span class="smcap">E. Kirby</span>. With
+Illustrations by <span class="smcap">H.K. Browne</span> (<span class="smcap">Phiz.</span>). Small 4to.; price <i>2s.
+6d.</i> cloth; <i>3s. 6d.</i> coloured, gilt edges.</p>
+
+<p>"We know no better method of banishing 'discontent' from
+school-room and nursery, than by introducing this wise and
+clever story to their inmates."&mdash;<i>Art Journal</i>.</p></div>
+
+
+<p class="center"><b><small>PETER PARLEY.</small></b></p>
+
+<p><big>Faggots for the Fire Side;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, Tales of Fact and Fancy. By <span class="smcap">Peter Parley</span>. With Twelve
+Tinted Illustrations. Foolscap 8vo.; <i>4s. 6d.</i>, cloth; <i>5s.</i>
+gilt edges.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Contents</span>.&mdash;The Boy Captive; or Jumping Rabbit's Story&mdash;The
+White Owl&mdash;Tom Titmouse&mdash;The Wolf and Fox&mdash;Bob
+Link&mdash;Autobiography of a Sparrow&mdash;The Children of the Sun: A
+Tale of the Incas&mdash;The Soldier and Musician&mdash;The Rich Man and
+His Son&mdash;The Avalanche&mdash;Flint and Steel&mdash;Songs of the Seasons,
+etc.</p>
+
+<p>"A new book by Peter Parley is a pleasant greeting for all
+boys and girls, wherever the English language is spoken and
+read. He has a happy method of conveying information, while
+seeming to address himself to the imagination."&mdash;<i>The Critic</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Words by the Way Side;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, the Children and the Flowers. By <span class="smcap">Emily Ayton</span>. With
+Illustrations by <span class="smcap">H. Anelay</span>. Small 4to.; price <i>3s. 6d.</i> cloth;
+<i>4s. 6d.</i> colored gilt edges.</p>
+
+<p>"Seldom have we opened a book designed for young people, which
+has afforded us greater satisfaction&mdash;it has our most cordial
+commendation."&mdash;<i>British Mother's Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"The simple and quiet manner in which the beauties of nature
+are gradually unfolded is so fascinating, and the manner in
+which everything is associated with the Creator is so natural
+and charming, that we strongly recommend the book."&mdash;<i>Bell's
+Messenger</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Caw, Caw;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, the Chronicles of the Crows: a tale of Spring Time.
+Illustrated by <span class="smcap">J.B. Quarto</span>; price <i>2s.</i> plain; <i>2s. 6d.</i>
+coloured.</p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_a_6" id="Page_a_6">[Pg&nbsp;6]</a></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="padding">
+<div class="bbox">
+<p><big>The Remarkable History of the House that Jack Built.</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Splendidly Illustrated and magnificently Illuminated by <span class="smcap">The
+Son of a Genius</span>. Price <i>2s. in fancy cover</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"Magnificent in suggestion, and most comical in
+expression!"&mdash;<i>Athen&aelig;um</i>.</p></div>
+
+
+<p class="center"><b><small>A BOOK FOR EVERY CHILD.</small></b></p>
+
+<p><big>The Favourite Picture Book;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>A Gallery of Delights, designed for the Amusement and Instruction of the
+Young. With several Hundred Illustrations by Eminent Artists Royal 4to.,
+price <i>3s. 6d.</i>, bound in an Elegant Cover; <i>7s. 6d.</i> coloured or
+mounted on cloth; <i>10s. 6d.</i> mounted and coloured.</p></div>
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+<p class="center"><i>Fourth Thousand, enlarged in size, with Illustrations, 3s. 6d. cloth.</i></p>
+
+<p><big>Letters from Sarawak,</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Addressed to a Child; embracing an Account of the Manners,
+Customs, and Religion of the Inhabitants of Borneo, with
+Incidents of Missionary Life among the Natives. By Mrs.
+<span class="smcap">M'Dougall</span>.</p>
+
+<p>"All is new, interesting, and admirably told."&mdash;<i>Church and
+State Gazette</i>.</p></div>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p><big>A Peep at the Pixies;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, Legends of the West. By Mrs. <span class="smcap">Bray</span>. Illustrated by H.K.
+<span class="smcap">Browne</span> (Phiz), <i>3s. 6d.</i> cloth; <i>4s. 6d.</i> coloured, gilt
+edges.</p>
+
+<p>"A peep at the actual Pixies of Devonshire, faithfully
+described by Mrs. Bray, is a treat. Her knowledge of the
+locality, her affection for her subject, her exquisite feeling
+for nature, and her real delight in fairy lore, have given a
+freshness to the little volume we did not expect. The notes at
+the end contain matter of interest for all who feel a desire
+to know the origin of such tales and legends."&mdash;<i>Art Journal</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Ocean and her Rulers;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>A Narrative of the Nations who have from the earliest ages
+held dominion over the Sea. By <span class="smcap">Alfred Elwes</span>. With Frontispiece
+Foolscap 8vo., <i>5s.</i> cloth, <i>5s. 6d.</i> gilt edges.</p>
+
+<p>"The volume is replete with valuable and interesting
+information; and we cordially recommend it as a useful
+auxiliary in the school-room, and entertaining companion in
+the library."&mdash;<i>Morning Post</i>.</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="padding">
+<div class="bbox">
+<p><big>The Day of a Baby Boy;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>A Story for a Young Child. By <span class="smcap">E. Berger</span>. With Illustrations by
+<span class="smcap">John Absolon</span>. Price <i>2s. 6d.</i> cloth, plain; <i>3s. 6d.</i>
+coloured, gilt edges.</p>
+
+<p>"A sweet little book for the nursery."&mdash;<i>Christian Times</i>.</p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_a_7" id="Page_a_7">[Pg&nbsp;7]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><big>Cat and Dog;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, Memoirs of Puss and the Captain. By the Author of "The
+Doll and her Friends," "Historical Acting Charades," etc.
+Illustrated by <span class="smcap">H. Weir</span>. 4th Edition. Price <i>2s. 6d.</i> cloth,
+plain; <i>3s. 6d.</i> coloured, gilt edges.</p>
+
+<p>"The author of this amusing little tale is, evidently, a keen
+observer of nature. The illustrations are well executed; and
+the moral, which points the tale, is conveyed in the most
+attractive form."&mdash;<i>Britannia</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>The Doll and Her Friends;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina. With Illustrations by Phiz.
+3rd Edition, small 4to., cloth, <i>2s. 6d.</i> plain; <i>3s. 6d.</i>
+coloured.</p></div>
+
+
+<p class="center"><b><small>ALFRED CROWQUILL'S COMICAL BOOKS.</small></b></p>
+
+<p class="center"><small><i>Uniform in size with</i> "The Struwwelpeter."</small></p>
+
+<p><big>Picture Fables.</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Written and Illustrated with Sixteen large coloured Plates by
+<span class="smcap">Alfred Crowquill</span>. Price <i>2s. 6d.</i>, or mounted on linen <i>3s.
+6d.</i></p></div>
+
+<p><big>The Careless Chicken;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>By the <span class="smcap">Baron Krakemsides</span>; With Sixteen large coloured Plates,
+by <span class="smcap">Alfred Crowquill</span>. 4to., <i>2s. 6d.</i>, or on linen <i>3s. 6d.</i></p></div>
+
+<p><big>Funny Leaves for the Younger Branches.</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>By the <span class="smcap">Baron Krakemsides</span>, of Burstenoudelafen Castle.
+Illustrated by <span class="smcap">Alfred Crowquill</span>. 4to., coloured plates, <i>2s.
+6d.</i>, or on linen <i>3s. 6d.</i></p></div>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p><big>Scripture Histories for Little Children.</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>By the author of "Mamma's Bible Stories," etc. With Sixteen
+Illustrations, by <span class="smcap">John Gilbert</span>. <i>3s.</i> plain; <i>4s. 6d.</i>
+coloured.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Contents.</span>&mdash;The History of Joseph&mdash;History of Moses&mdash;History of
+our Saviour&mdash;The Miracles of Christ.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>The Family Bible Newly Opened;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>With Uncle Goodwin's account of it. By <span class="smcap">Jefferys Taylor</span>, author
+of "A Glance at the Globe," "The Young Islanders," etc.
+Frontispiece by <span class="smcap">John Gilbert</span>. Fcap. 8vo., <i>3s. 6d.</i> cloth.</p>
+
+<p>"A very good account of the Sacred Writings, adapted to the
+tastes, feelings, and intelligence of young
+people."&mdash;<i>Educational Times</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"Parents will also find it a great aid in the religious
+teaching of their families."&mdash;<i>Edinburgh Witness</i>.</p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_a_8" id="Page_a_8">[Pg&nbsp;8]</a></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="padding">
+<div class="bbox">
+<p><big>Clarissa Donnelly;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, The History of an Adopted Child. By <span class="smcap">Geraldine E. Jewsbury</span>,
+with an Illustration by <span class="smcap">John Absolon</span>. Foolscap 8vo., price
+<i>3s. 6d.</i> cloth.</p>
+
+<p>"With wonderful power, only to be matched by as admirable a
+simplicity, Miss Jewsbury has narrated the history of a child.
+For nobility of purpose, for simple, nervous writing, and for
+artistic construction, it is one of the most valuable works of
+the day."&mdash;<i>Lady's Companion</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Kate and Rosalind;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, Early Experiences. By the author of "Quicksands on Foreign
+Shores," etc. With an Illustration by <span class="smcap">J. Gilbert</span>. Fcap. 8vo.,
+price <i>3s. 6d.</i> cloth.</p>
+
+<p>"A book of unusual merit. The story is exceedingly well told,
+and the characters are drawn with a freedom and boldness
+seldom met with."&mdash;<i>Church of England Quarterly</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"We have not room to exemplify the skill with which Puseyism
+is tracked and detected. The Irish scenes are of an excellence
+that has not been surpassed since the best days of Miss
+Edgeworth."&mdash;<i>Fraser's Magazine</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Good in Everything;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, The Early History of Gilbert Harland. By <span class="smcap">Mrs. Barwell</span>,
+Author of "Little Lessons for Little Learners," etc.
+Illustrated by <span class="smcap">John Gilbert</span>. Royal 16mo., cl. <i>3s. 6d.</i> plain;
+<i>4s. 6d.</i>, cold., gilt edges.</p>
+
+<p>"The moral of this exquisite little tale will do more good
+than a thousand set tasks abounding with dry and uninteresting
+truisms."&mdash;<i>Bell's Messenger</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Stories of Julian and his Playfellows.</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Written by <span class="smcap">His Mamma</span>. With Illustrations by <span class="smcap">John Absolon</span>.
+Small 4to., <i>2s. 6d.</i>, plain; <i>3s. 6d.</i>, coloured, gilt edges.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Tales from Catland;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Written for Little Kittens by an <span class="smcap">Old Tabby</span>. With Four
+Illustrations by <span class="smcap">H. Weir</span>. Third Edit. Small 4to., <i>2s. 6d.</i>
+plain; <i>3s. 6d.</i> coloured.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>The Wonders of Home, in Eleven Stories.</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>By <span class="smcap">Grandfather Grey</span>. Second Edition. With Illustrations. Royal
+16mo., price <i>3s. 6d.</i> cloth; <i>4s. 6d.</i> coloured.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Contents.</span>&mdash;1. The Story of a Cup of Tea.&mdash;2. A Lump of
+Coal.&mdash;3. Some Hot Water.&mdash;4. A Piece of Sugar.&mdash;5. The Milk
+Jug.&mdash;6. A Pin.&mdash;7. Jenny's Sash.&mdash;8. Harry's Jacket.&mdash;9. A
+Tumbler.&mdash;10. A Knife.&mdash;11. This Book.</p>
+
+<p>"The idea is excellent, and its execution equally commendable.
+The subjects are well selected, and are very happily told in a
+light yet sensible manner."&mdash;<i>Weekly News</i>.</p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_a_9" id="Page_a_9">[Pg&nbsp;9]</a></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="padding">
+<div class="bbox">
+<p class="center"><b><small>WORKS BY MRS R. LEE.</small></b></p>
+
+<p><big>Anecdotes of the Habits and Instincts of Animals.</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>By Mrs. <span class="smcap">R. Lee</span> (formerly Mrs. Bowdich), with Illustrations by
+<span class="smcap">H. Weir</span>. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo., <i>5s.</i> cloth.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Anecdotes of the Habits and Instincts of Birds, REPTILES, and FISHES.</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Illustrated by <span class="smcap">H. Weir</span>. Fcap. 8vo., <i>5s.</i> cl.</p>
+
+<p>"Amusing, instructive, and ably written."&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"Mrs. Lee's authorities&mdash;to name only one, Professor
+Owen&mdash;are, for the most part, first rate."&mdash;<i>Athen&aelig;um</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Playing at Settlers; or, the Faggot House.</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>With Illustrations by <span class="smcap">Gilbert</span>. <i>2s. 6d.</i> cloth; <i>3s. 6d.</i>
+coloured.</p>
+
+<p>"A pleasant story, drawn from the reminiscences of the
+author's own child-life."&mdash;<i>The Press</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Twelve Stories of the Sayings and Doings of ANIMALS.</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>With Four Illustrations by <span class="smcap">J.W. Archer</span>. 2nd Edition, small
+4to., cloth <i>2s. 6d.</i> plain; <i>3s. 6d.</i> coloured, gilt edges.</p>
+
+<p>"It is just such books as this that educate the imagination of
+children, and enlist their sympathies for the brute
+creation."&mdash;<i>Nonconformist</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Adventures in Australia;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, the Wanderings of Captain Spencer in the Bush and the
+Wilds; containing accurate descriptions of the Habits of the
+Natives, and the Natural Productions and Features of the
+Country. Second Edition. With Illustrations by <span class="smcap">J.S. Prout</span>.
+Fcap. 8vo., <i>5s.</i> cloth.</p>
+
+<p>"The work cannot fail to achieve an extensive
+popularity."&mdash;<i>Art Journal</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"This volume should find a place in every school library; and
+it will, we are sure, be a very welcome and useful
+prize."&mdash;<i>Educational Times</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Familiar Natural History.</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>With Forty-two Illustrations from Drawings by <span class="smcap">Harrison Weir</span>,
+Small 4to., cloth <i>3s. 6d.</i> plain; <i>6s.</i> coloured gilt edges.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>The African Wanderers;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, the Adventures of Carlos and Antonio; with Descriptions of
+the Manners and Customs of the Western Tribes, and the Natural
+Productions of the Country. 3rd Edit. With Engravings. Fcap.
+8vo., <i>5s.</i> cl.</p>
+
+<p>"For fascinating adventure, and rapid succession of incident,
+the volume is equal to any relation of travel we ever read. It
+exhibits marked ability as well as extensive knowledge, and
+deserves perusal from all ages."&mdash;<i>Britannia</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"In strongly recommending this admirable work to the attention
+of young readers, we feel that we are rendering a real service
+to the cause of African civilization."&mdash;<i>Patriot</i>.</p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_a_10" id="Page_a_10">[Pg&nbsp;10]</a></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="padding">
+<div class="bbox">
+<p class="center"><b><small>WORKS BY W.H.C. KINGSTON.</small></b></p>
+
+<p><big>Manco, the Peruvian Chief;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, the Adventures of an Englishman in the Country of the
+Incas. With Illustrations by <span class="smcap">Carl Schmolze</span>. Fcap. 8vo., <i>5s.</i>
+cloth.</p>
+
+<p>"A capital book; the story being one of much interest, and
+presenting a good account of the history and institutions, the
+customs and manners, of the country."&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Mark Seaworth;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>A Tale of the Indian Ocean. Illustrated by <span class="smcap">J. Absolon</span>. Second
+Edition. Fcap. 8vo. <i>5s.</i> cloth.</p>
+
+<p>"No more interesting, nor more safe book, can be put into the
+hands of youth; and to boys especially, 'Mark Seaworth' will
+be a treasure of delight."&mdash;<i>Art Journal</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Peter the Whaler;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>His early Life and Adventures in the Arctic Regions. Second
+Edition. With Illustrations. Fcap. 8vo., <i>5s.</i> cloth.</p>
+
+<p>"A better present for a boy of an active turn of mind could
+not be found. The tone of the book is manly, healthful, and
+vigorous."&mdash;<i>Weekly News</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"A book which the old may, but the young must, read when they
+have once begun it."&mdash;<i>Athen&aelig;um</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p><big>Blue Jackets;</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or, Chips of the Old Block. A Narrative of the Gallant
+Exploits of British Seamen, and of the principal Events in the
+Naval Service during the Reign of her Most Gracious Majesty
+Queen Victoria. Post 8vo.; price <i>7s.</i> <i>6d.</i> cloth.</p>
+
+<p>"A more acceptable testimonial than this to the valour and
+enterprise of the British Navy, has not issued from the press
+for many years."&mdash;<i>The Critic</i>.</p></div>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p><big>Rhymes of Royalty.</big></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>The History of England in Verse, from the Norman Conquest to
+the reign of <span class="smcap">Queen Victoria</span>; with an Appendix, comprising a
+summary of the leading events in each reign. Fcap. 8vo., with
+an Elegant Frontispiece. Price <i>2s. 6d.</i> cloth.</p></div>
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+</div>
+
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+<div class="bbox">
+<p><big>Blades and Flowers.</big></p>
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+</div>
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+
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+
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+
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+Scriptural Principles into daily practice; with Hints on
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+<span class="smcap">Third Series</span>.&mdash;MOSES.<br />
+<span class="smcap">Fourth Series</span>.&mdash;MIRACLES OF CHRIST.<br />
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+<div class="padding">
+<div class="bbox">
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Cat and Dog, by Julia Charlotte Maitland,
+Illustrated by Harrison Weir
+
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  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.org
+
+
+
+
+
+Title: Cat and Dog
+       Memoirs of Puss and the Captain
+
+
+Author: Julia Charlotte Maitland
+
+
+
+Release Date: March 21, 2007  [eBook #20868]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
+
+
+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAT AND DOG***
+
+
+E-text prepared by David Edwards, Christine D., and the Project Gutenberg
+Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page
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+
+CAT AND DOG;
+
+Or,
+
+Memoirs of Puss and the Captain.
+
+A Story founded on Fact.
+
+By the Author of
+
+"The Doll and Her Friends," "Letters from Madras,"
+"Historical Acting Charades," Etc.
+
+Fifth Edition.
+
+With Illustrations by Harrison Weir.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN AND THE LOOKING-GLASS. Page 9]
+
+
+
+London:
+Griffith and Farran,
+Late Grant and Griffith, Successors to Newbery and Harris,
+Corner of St. Paul's Churchyard.
+MDCCCLVIII.
+
+
+
+
+NOTE.
+
+The Author begs to assure her young readers that the principal
+circumstances on which this little story is founded are true. The
+friendship between the two animals, the dog's journey home, and return
+in company with his friend, are facts which occurred within her own
+knowledge.
+
+
+  LONDON:
+  SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS,
+  CHANDOS STREET.
+
+
+
+
+CAT AND DOG;
+
+OR,
+
+PUSS AND THE CAPTAIN.
+
+
+I am going to relate the history of a pleasant and prosperous life; for
+though a few misfortunes may have befallen me, my pleasures have far
+exceeded them, and especially I have been treated with such constant
+cordiality and kindness as would not fail to ensure the happiness of man
+or beast. But though I have no reason to complain of my destiny, it is a
+remarkable fact, that my principal happiness has been produced by
+conforming myself to unfavourable circumstances, and reconciling myself
+to an unnatural fate.
+
+Nature herself did well by me. I am a fine setter, of a size that a
+Newfoundland dog could not despise, and a beauty that a Blenheim spaniel
+might envy. With a white and brown curly coat, drooping ears, bushy
+tail, a delicate pink nose, and good-natured brown eyes, active,
+strong, honest, gentle, and obedient, I have always felt a conscious
+pride and pleasure in being a thoroughly well-bred dog.
+
+My condition in life was peculiarly comfortable. I was brought up in an
+old manor-house inhabited by a gentleman and his daughter, with several
+respectable and good-natured servants. My education was conducted with
+care, and from my earliest youth I had the advantage of an introduction
+into good society. I was not, indeed, allowed to come much into the
+drawing-room, as my master said I was too large for a drawing-room dog;
+but I had the range of the lower part of the house, and constant
+admittance to his study, where I was welcome to share his fireside while
+he read the newspapers or received visitors. I took great interest in
+his friends; and by means of listening to their conversation, watching
+them from under my eyelids while they thought I was asleep, and smelling
+them carefully, I could form a sufficiently just estimate of their
+characters to regulate my own conduct towards them. Though a polite dog
+both by birth and breeding, I was too honest and independent to show the
+same respect and cordiality towards those whom I liked and those whom I
+despised; and though very grateful for the smallest favours from
+persons I esteemed, no flattery, caresses, or benefactions could induce
+me to strike up an intimacy with one who did not please me. If I had
+been able to speak, I should have expressed my opinions without
+ceremony; and it often surprised me that my master, who could say what
+he pleased, did not quarrel with people, and tell them all their faults
+openly. I thought, if I had been he, I would have had many a fight with
+intruders, to whom he was not only civil himself, but compelled me to be
+so too. I have often observed that it appears proper for human beings to
+observe a kind of respect even towards persons they dislike; a line of
+conduct which _brutes_ cannot understand.
+
+However, I was not without my own methods of showing my sentiments. If I
+felt indifferent or contemptuous towards a person entering the room, I
+merely opened one eye and yawned at him. If he attempted any
+compliments, calling me "Good Captain," "Fine Dog," and trying to pat
+me, I shook off his hand, and rising from my rug, turned once round, and
+curling my tail under me, sank down again to my repose without taking
+any further notice of him. But occasionally my master admitted visitors
+whom I considered as such highly improper acquaintances for him, that I
+could scarcely restrain my indignation. I knew I must not bite them,
+though, in my own opinion, it would have been by far the best thing to
+do; I did not dare so much as to bark at them, for my master objected
+even to that expression of feeling: but I could not resist receiving
+them with low growls; during their visit I never took my eyes off them
+for a moment, and I made a point of following them to the door, and
+seeing them safe off the premises. Others, on the contrary, I regarded
+with the highest confidence and esteem. Their visits gave almost as much
+pleasure to me as to my master, and I took pains to show my friendship
+by every means in my power; leaving the fireside to meet them, wagging
+my tail, shaking a paw with them the moment I was asked, and sitting
+with my nose resting on their lap.
+
+But I took no unwelcome liberties; for I was gifted with a particular
+power of discriminating between those who really liked me, and those who
+only tolerated me out of politeness. Upon the latter I never willingly
+intruded, though I have been sometimes obliged to submit to a
+hypocritical pat bestowed on me for the sake of my young mistress; but a
+real friend of dogs I recognised at a glance, whether lady or gentleman,
+so that I could safely place my paw in the whitest hand, or rest my
+head against the gayest dress, without fear of a repulse.
+
+The person I loved best in the world was my master; or rather, I should
+say, he was the person for whom I had the highest respect. My love was
+bestowed in at least an equal degree upon my young mistress, his
+daughter Lily, in whose every action I took a deep interest.
+
+She was a graceful, gentle little creature, whom I could have knocked
+down and trampled upon in a minute; but though my strength was so
+superior to hers, there was no one whom I was so ready to obey. A word
+or look from Lily managed me completely; and her gentle warning of "Oh,
+Captain," has often recalled me to good manners when I was on the point
+of breaking out into fury against some obnoxious person. Willing subject
+as I was, I yet looked upon myself in some manner as her guardian and
+protector, and it would have fared ill with man or beast who had
+attempted to molest her.
+
+As I mentioned before, I was not allowed to come much into the
+drawing-room; but Lily found many opportunities of noticing me. I always
+sat at the foot of the stairs to watch for her as she came down to the
+breakfast-room, when she used to pat my head and say, "How do you do,
+good Captain? Nice dog," as she passed. Then I wagged my tail, and was
+very happy. I think I should have moped half the day if I had missed
+Lily's morning greeting. After breakfast she came into the garden, and
+brought me pieces of toast, and gave me lessons in what she considered
+clever ways of eating. I should have preferred snapping at her gifts and
+bolting them down my own throat in my own way; but, to please Lily, I
+learned to sit patiently watching the most tempting buttered crust on
+the ground under my nose, when she said, "Trust, Captain!" never
+dreaming of touching it till she gave the word of command, "Now it is
+paid for;" when I ate it in a genteel and deliberate manner. Having
+achieved such a conquest over myself, I thought my education was
+complete; but Lily had further refinements in store. She made me hold
+the piece of toast on my very nose while she counted _ten_, and at the
+word _ten_ I was to toss it up in the air, and catch it in my mouth as
+it came down. I was a good while learning this trick, for I did not at
+all see the use of it. I could smell the bread distinctly as it lay on
+my nose, and why I should not eat it at once I never could understand. I
+have often peeped in at the dining-room window to see if my master and
+mistress ate their food in the same manner; but though I have sometimes
+seen them perform my first feat of sitting quietly before their plates,
+I never once saw them put their meat on their noses and catch it.
+However, it was Lily's pleasure, and that was enough for me.
+
+She also taught me to shut the door at her command. This was rather a
+noisy performance, as I could only succeed by running against the door
+with my whole weight; but it gave Lily so much satisfaction, that she
+used to open the door a dozen times a day, on purpose for me to bang it.
+
+Another favourite amusement of hers was making me look at myself in the
+glass. I grew used to this before long; but the first time that she set
+a mirror before me on the ground, I confess that I was a good deal
+astonished and puzzled. At the first glance, I took the dog in the glass
+for an enemy and rival, intruding upon my dominions, so I naturally
+prepared for a furious attack upon him. He appeared equally ready, and I
+perceived that he was quite my match. But when, after a great deal of
+barking and violence, nobody was hurt, I fancied that the looking-glass
+was the barrier which prevented our coming to close quarters, and that
+my adversary had entrenched himself behind it in the most cowardly
+manner. Determined that he should not profit by his baseness, I
+cleverly walked round behind the glass, intending to seize him and give
+him a thorough shaking; but there I found nothing! I dashed to the front
+once more; there he stood as fierce as ever. Again behind his
+battlements--nobody! till after repeated trials, I began to have a
+glimmering of the state of the case; and feeling rather ashamed of
+having been so taken in, I declined further contest, and lay down
+quietly before the mirror to contemplate my own image, and reflect upon
+my own reflection.
+
+Lily took great pains with me; but after all, hers were but minor
+accomplishments, and I was not allowed to devote my whole attention to
+mere tricks or amusements. I was not born to be a lap-dog, and it was
+necessary that I should be educated for the more important business of
+life. Under my master's careful training, my natural talents were
+developed, and my defects subdued, till I was pronounced by the best
+judges to be the cleverest setter in the country. My master himself was
+a capital sportsman, and I was as proud of him as he was of me. When I
+had become sufficiently perfect to be his companion, we used to range
+together untired "over hill, over dale, through bush, through brier," he
+doing his part and I mine, and bringing home between us such quantities
+of game as no one else could boast. This was my real business, but it
+was no less my pleasure. I entered into it thoroughly. To point at a
+bird immovably till my master's never-failing shot gave the signal for
+my running to fetch the foolish thing and lay it at his feet, was to my
+mind the greatest enjoyment and the first object in life. And if anybody
+should be inclined to despise me on that account, I would beg them to
+recollect that it was the work given me to do, and I did it well. Can
+everybody say as much? The causes or the consequences of it, I was not
+capable of understanding. As to how the birds liked it, that never
+entered my head. I thought birds were meant to be shot, and I never
+supposed there was any other use in them.
+
+The only thing that distressed me in our shooting excursions was, that
+my master would sometimes allow very indifferent sportsmen to accompany
+us. I whined, grumbled, and remonstrated with him to the best of my
+power when I heard him give an invitation to some awkward booby who
+scarcely knew how to hold his gun, but it was all in vain; my master's
+only fault was his not consulting my judgment sufficiently in the choice
+of his acquaintances, and many a bad day's sport we had in consequence.
+
+Once my patience was tired beyond what any clever dog could be expected
+to bear. A young gentleman had arrived at our house whom my master and
+mistress treated much better than I thought he deserved. At the first
+glance I penetrated into his state of mind, and should have liked to
+hear my master growl, and my mistress bark at him; instead of which they
+said they were glad to see him, and hoped he had had a pleasant journey.
+
+He immediately began a long string of complaints, blaming everything he
+mentioned. He was cold; there never was such weather for the time of
+year; he was tired; the roads were bad, the country dull, he had been
+obliged to come the last twenty miles cramped up inside a coach. Such a
+shame that the railroad did not go the whole way! He was very glad to
+get to his journey's end, but it seemed to be more for the sake of his
+own comfort than for the pleasure of seeing his friends. His troubles
+had not hurt his appetite, as I plainly perceived, for I peeped into the
+room several times during dinner to watch him, and listen to his
+conversation. It was all in the same style, some fault to be found with
+everything. Even Lily could not put him in good humour, though she
+seemed to be trying to talk about everything likely to please him. After
+the failure of various attempts to find a fortunate topic, she asked if
+he had had much shooting this season.
+
+"Plenty of it," he answered; "only so bad. My brother's dogs are
+wretched. There is no doing any thing with such brutes."
+
+Lily coloured a little, and said that she thought Rodolph's dogs
+beautiful, and that it was very unlike him to have any thing wretched
+belonging to him.
+
+"Oh," replied the other, "he is the greenest fellow in the world. He is
+always satisfied. I assure you his dogs are good for nothing. I did not
+bring down a single bird any time I went out with them."
+
+"Well," said my master, "I hope we shall be able to make amends for that
+misfortune. To-morrow you shall go out with the best dog in the
+country."
+
+I whined, for I knew he meant me; and I did not like the idea of a
+sportsman who began by finding fault with his dogs. I suspected that the
+_dogs_ were not to blame. But nobody listened to me.
+
+Next day, while Lily and I were playing in the garden, my master
+appeared at the usual time in his shooting-jacket.
+
+"Where is Craven?" he inquired of Lily; "I told him to be ready."
+
+"He is dressing again," answered she, laughing; "his boots had done
+something wrong, or his waistcoat was naughty; I forget which."
+
+"Pshaw!" exclaimed my master; "he will waste half the day with his
+nonsense. I cannot wait for him. Tell him I am gone on, and he must
+follow with John. Go back, Captain," continued he, for I was bounding
+after him in hopes of escaping my threatened companion; "go back. You
+must do your best this morning, for I suspect you will know more about
+the matter than your commander."
+
+Most reluctantly I obeyed, and stayed behind, looking wistfully after
+him as he strode away. I consoled myself with Lily's praises, which I
+almost preferred to the biscuits she bestowed upon me in equal
+profusion. After various compliments, she took a graver tone. "Now,
+Captain," she said, "listen to me."
+
+I sat upright, and looked her full in the face.
+
+"You know you are the best of dogs."
+
+I wagged my tail, for I certainly did know it. She told me so every day,
+and I believed every thing she said.
+
+"Here is another biscuit for you: catch!"
+
+I caught, and swallowed it at one gulp.
+
+"Good boy. Now that is enough; and I have something to say to you. You
+are going out shooting with Craven. He is not his brother, but that
+cannot be helped. I hope he will be good-natured to you, but I am not
+sure. Now mind that _you_ behave well, and set him a good example. Do
+your own work as well as you can, and don't growl and grumble at other
+people. And if you are angry, you must not bark, nor bite him, but take
+it patiently."
+
+What more she might have added I do not know, for her harangue was
+interrupted by old John the groom, who was, like myself, waiting for the
+gentleman in question. John's wife had been Lily's nurse, and he himself
+taught her to ride and helped her to garden, and had a sort of
+partnership with me in taking care of her; so that there was a great
+friendship between us all three. He had been listening to our
+conversation, and now observed, while he pointed towards the house with
+a knowing jerk of his head, "There are those coming, Miss Lily, who need
+your advice as much as the poor animal; and I guess it wouldn't be of
+much more use."
+
+The last words he said to himself, in an undertone, while Lily went
+forward to meet Craven, who now appeared in full costume. He was so hung
+about with extra shooting-pouches, belts, powder-flasks, and other
+things dangling from him in all directions, that I wondered he could
+move at all. Old John shook his head as he looked at him, and muttered,
+"Great cry and little wool."
+
+Lily began to explain her father's absence; but Craven did not listen
+to what she said, he seemed intent upon making her admire his numerous
+contrivances. Lily said he had plenty of tools, and that he would be
+very clever if he did work to match, but that in her opinion such
+variety was rather puzzling.
+
+"Of course, girls know nothing of field-sports," he answered; "I can't
+expect you to understand the merits of these things."
+
+"Oh, no, to be sure," answered Lily, good-humouredly; "I dare say they
+are all very clever; only papa sometimes tells _me_ that one wants but
+few tools if one knows one's work; but perhaps he only means girls'
+work. Very likely you are right about yours."
+
+Old John now came forward very respectfully, but with a particular
+twinkle in his eye which I understood. Said he, "As you are encumbered
+with so many traps, master, maybe I had best take your gun. You can't
+carry every thing useful and not useful."
+
+Craven handed him the gun without any objection, and we set off. From
+the moment that I saw him relinquish his gun, his real weapon, for the
+sake of all those unnecessary adjuncts, I gave up any lingering hope of
+him, and followed in very low spirits. Once in the fields, the prospect
+of rejoining my master a little revived me; but even in this I was
+disappointed: he had gone over the open country, while Craven preferred
+remaining in the plantations. Still, old John's company was a comfort to
+me, and when the first bird was descried, I made a capital set at it.
+Craven took back his gun; but while he was looking in the wrong pocket
+for the right shot, John brought down the partridge.
+
+"A fine bird," said Craven. "If it had not been for this awkward button,
+I should have had him."
+
+"You'll soon have another opportunity," said John; "suppose you get
+loaded first."
+
+Craven loaded; but something else was wrong about his contrivances, and
+before he was ready, John had bagged the pheasant. At last Craven got a
+shot, and missed it. He said it was John's fault for standing in the way
+of his seeing me.
+
+"Well, I shan't be in the way any longer," said John; "for I was to go
+back to my work if I was not wanted, after having shown you the
+plantations. So good morning, master, and good luck next time."
+
+The next time, and the next, and the next, no better success. Bird after
+bird rose, and flew away before our noses, as if in sheer ridicule of
+such idle popping, till I felt myself degraded in the eyes of the very
+partridges. Half the morning we passed in this way, wasting time and
+temper, powder and shot; and the birds, as I well knew, despising us for
+missing them, till my patience was quite exhausted, and I longed to go
+home. Still, I remembered Lily's parting injunctions, and resolved to be
+game to the last myself, even if we were to have no other game that day.
+I also reflected that no one was born with a gun in his hand, and that
+Craven might not have had opportunity of acquiring dexterity; that there
+was a beginning to everything, and that it was the business of the more
+experienced to help the ignorant. So I continued to be as useful to him
+as I possibly could.
+
+Suddenly, after a particularly provoking miss, Craven exclaimed: "It is
+all your fault, you stupid dog; you never turn the bird out where one
+expects it. If you knew your business, I could have bagged dozens."
+
+Highly affronted, I now felt that I had borne enough, and that it was
+hopeless to attempt being of use to a creature as unjust and ungrateful
+as he was ignorant and conceited. I, therefore, turned round, and in a
+quiet but dignified and decided manner took my way towards home. Craven
+called, whistled, shouted, but I took no notice. I was too much
+disgusted to have anything more to do with him; and I never turned my
+head nor slackened my pace till I arrived at my own kennel, when I
+curled myself round in my straw, and brooded over my wrongs till I went
+to sleep.
+
+I kept rather out of sight during the rest of the day, for more reasons
+than one. An inferior creature cannot at once rise superior to an
+affront, and clear it off his mind like a man; we are slaves to our
+impressions, and till they are forgotten we cannot help acting upon
+them; and I am afraid I rather took pleasure in nursing my wrath. Then I
+did not wish to see Craven; and perhaps I might feel a little ashamed of
+myself, and not quite sure what my master and mistress might think of my
+running away. But I happened to hear John chuckling over the affair, and
+saying that my master had been very much amused with the story; so I
+regained confidence enough next morning to present myself once more,
+though in rather a shy way, to Lily at the foot of the stairs.
+
+"Oh, come in to breakfast, you capital dog," exclaimed she; so I
+followed her, delighted to find that I was in the same favour as ever.
+But, alas! how little did I foresee the misfortune that was coming upon
+me! I had better have stayed in my kennel and fancied the whole world
+affronted with me for a few days longer.
+
+Craven and I met on the rug, _my_ rug, as I considered it; for it was
+one of my principal pleasures to sit on that rug with my feet on the
+fender, warming my nose. I sometimes toasted myself all over, till my
+coat was so hot that Lily squeaked when she touched me. She would have
+barked, I suppose, if she had known how. Now Craven stood in my place,
+with one of his hind paws on my fender. He looked scornfully at me, and
+I returned his glance with one of equal contempt, though I longed to
+snap at his shining heel, and teach him sense and manners.
+
+But Lily, who never was angry with any body, did not perceive how much
+we disliked each other, and exclaimed in her innocent way, "Craven, here
+is Captain come to make friends with you, and to beg pardon for
+deserting you yesterday. Shake a paw, Captain."
+
+Shaking a paw with Craven was a thing I would not do; and my master, a
+good sportsman himself, entered into my feelings.
+
+"The dog was thoroughly provoked by your bad shooting, Craven," said he,
+"and you will never make either him or me believe it was his fault. But
+try again. There is no necessity for you to be a sportsman; but if you
+choose to do a thing at all, you had better do it properly; and you may
+learn as well as any body else, if you will not fancy yourself perfect.
+We will all go out together to-day."
+
+And so we all went out together on that fatal day. I did myself credit,
+and my master did me justice, and I was happy in my ignorance of coming
+events. Craven shot and missed, and shot and missed again; but my
+master's laugh stopped him whenever he was beginning to lay the blame on
+dog or gun.
+
+"Bad workmen always find fault with their tools, Craven," said my
+master. "Take better aim."
+
+John tried to teach him, but he would listen to no advice.
+
+It is seldom that a person's fault or folly injures himself alone, and,
+alas for me! I was the victim of Craven's conceit and obstinacy. At his
+next fire I felt a pang that I never can forget. His ill-directed shot
+had entered my shoulder, and I sank down howling with agony. My
+companions instantly surrounded me, uttering exclamations of alarm,
+regret, and pity, Craven himself being the foremost and loudest. He
+never should forgive himself, he said; it was all his awkwardness and
+stupidity; he was never so sorry for any thing in his life.
+
+He ran to a neighbouring cottage for a shutter, while my master and John
+bound up the wound. They then placed me carefully on the shutter, and
+carried me home, Craven reproaching himself and pitying me every time he
+opened his lips. I scarcely knew him for the same person who had been
+so conceited and supercilious half an hour before; and even my master,
+who was extremely angry with him, grew softened by his penitence.
+
+They carried me two at a time, in turn; and when Craven was walking by
+my side, he stroked my head, saying, "Poor Captain, how I wish I could
+do any thing to relieve you! if you could but understand how grieved and
+ashamed I am, I think you would forgive me."
+
+Though suffering greatly, I could not but be touched by his sorrow; and
+when I heard the kind tones of his voice, and saw tears standing in his
+eyes, my anger quite melted away, and I licked his hand to show that I
+bore no malice.
+
+My accident confined me to the kennel for a considerable time, but every
+care and attention was paid me. My master and John doctored my wound,
+and Lily brought me my food every day with her own hands. As long as
+Craven remained in the house, he never failed to accompany her,
+repeating his regret and good-will towards me; and after he had left us
+I heard old John observe: "I always thought there was some good in
+Master Craven; and his brother is as fine a fellow as ever lived, and
+won't let it drop. The boy is quite changed now. Between Captain and
+Miss Lily, I reckon he has had a lesson he'll not forget."
+
+In due time I recovered, and was as strong and handsome as ever; but,
+strange to say, I no longer felt like the same dog. My own sufferings
+had suggested some serious reflections as to whether being shot might
+not be as unpleasant to the birds as to me; and I really began quite to
+pity them. So far the change was for the better; but it did not stop
+there: not only was my love for field-sports extinguished, but it had
+given place to a timidity which neither threats nor caresses could
+overcome. I shuddered at the very sight of a gun, and no amount either
+of reward or punishment could induce me again to brave its effects.
+Under all other circumstances I was as courageous as before: I would
+have attacked a wild beast, or defended the house against a robber,
+without the slightest fear; but I could not stand fire; and the moment I
+saw a gun pointed, there was no help for it, I fairly turned tail and
+ran off.
+
+"The poor beast is spoilt, sir," said John to my master. "It is cruel to
+force him, and he'll never be good for any thing again."
+
+"It is of no use taking him out," replied my master; "but he is far from
+good for nothing. He has plenty of spirit still, and we must make a
+house-dog of him."
+
+So I was appointed house-dog. At first I certainly felt the change of
+life very unpleasant; but I reflected that it was my own doing, though
+not exactly my own fault; and I determined to make the best of it, and
+adapt myself to my new employments. At the beginning of that summer, if
+any body had told me that I should be content to stay in the court and
+garden, sometimes even tethered to a tree on the lawn,--that my most
+adventurous amusement would he a quiet walk over the grounds, and my
+most exciting occupation the looking-out for suspicious characters,--I
+should have sneered, perhaps even growled at the prediction; but so it
+was, and before long I grew reconciled to my new station, and resolved
+to gain more credit as a guard than even as a sporting dog.
+
+We were not much troubled with thieves, for we lived in a quiet country
+place, where we knew every body and every body knew us, and no one was
+likely to wish us any harm; but it did once happen that my vigilance was
+put to the proof.
+
+There was a fair in our neighbourhood, attended by all the villages
+near. During the morning I amused myself by watching the people in
+their smart dresses passing our gate, laughing and talking merrily. I
+had many acquaintances among them, who greeted me with good-natured
+speeches, which I answered by polite wags of my tail.
+
+John, and others of our servants, went to the fair, and seemed to enjoy
+themselves as much as any body. They returned home before dark, and all
+the respectable persons who had passed our gate in the morning re-passed
+it at an early hour in the evening, looking as if they had spent a
+pleasant day, but perfectly quiet and sober; and I was much pleased at
+seeing them so well behaved.
+
+But among the crowd of passengers in the morning, I had noticed several
+men whose appearance I highly disapproved. Some of them scowled at me as
+they passed, and I felt sure they were bent upon no good; but one, the
+worst-looking of all, stopped, and whistled to me, holding out a piece
+of meat. I need scarcely say that I indignantly rejected his bribe--for
+such I knew it was--meant to entice me in some way or other to neglect
+my duty; so I growled and snarled, and watched him well as he passed on.
+No fear of my not knowing him again by sight or smell. Several of these
+ill-looking men returned intoxicated, to my great disgust; for I had a
+peculiar objection to persons in that condition, and never trusted a
+man who could degrade himself below my own level. I watched them all,
+every moment expecting the one who had tried to curry favour with me,
+for I had an instinctive assurance that I had not seen the last of him.
+Night drew on while I was still on the look-out, and yet he did not
+appear. The rest of the family went calmly to bed, taking no notice of
+my disquietude; but nothing could have induced _me_ to curl myself round
+and shut my eyes. I was sure danger was near, and it was my part as a
+faithful guardian to be prepared for it. So I alternately paced
+cautiously round the court, or sat up in my kennel with my head out
+listening for every sound. By degrees the returning parties of revellers
+dwindled to now and then a solitary pedestrian; and the hum of voices
+gradually subsided, till all was silent, and the whole country seemed
+asleep. Still I watched on, with unabated vigilance, deep into the
+night. At last I thought I heard outside the wall a very cautious
+footstep, accompanied by an almost inaudible whisper. I pricked up my
+ears; the footstep came nearer, and a hand was upon the lock of the
+courtyard-gate. I sniffed the air; there was no mistake; I smelt the
+very man whom I expected. Others might be with him, but there was _he_.
+Without a moment's delay, I set up an alarum that might have wakened the
+whole village; at any rate, it woke our whole house. Down stairs came my
+master in his dressing-gown; down came old John, lantern in hand, and
+red nightcap on head. Lily peeped out of her bedroom window, with a
+shawl over her shoulders; and seeing her papa in the court, ran down to
+help him,--as if she could have been any help against robbers, poor
+little darling! The servants assembled in such strange attire, that they
+looked to me like a herd of animals who had got into each other's coats
+by mistake. But the maids had kept their own voices at any rate, for
+they screamed almost as loud as I barked. It was a proud moment for me;
+and the greater everybody's fright, and the more noise and confusion
+they made, the prouder I was. It was all _my_ doing. It was _I_ who had
+called them all in the middle of the night. Their confidence in me was
+such, that at the sound of my voice they had all left their beds, and
+assembled in the courtyard in their night-gowns. How clever and careful
+they must think me! And how clever and careful I thought myself! I
+danced round Lily, and bounded about in all directions, till I knocked
+down the sleepy stable-boy, and got into every body's way. I never was
+in such glee in my life. But my master and John were quiet enough, and
+they examined the gate, and the footsteps outside, and decided that
+there certainly had been an attempt to break into the house, but that
+the robbers had been frightened away by me.
+
+"It has been a narrow escape for them, sir," said John; "for if they had
+succeeded in getting in, the dog would have pinned them."
+
+"Captain has done his duty well," said my master, "and no one can call
+him useless any more."
+
+"It is a good thing no one was hurt," added Lily; "but I am glad they
+were frightened. Perhaps the fright will cure them."
+
+After this adventure I was treated with great respect. By night I
+watched the house, and by day I was Lily's constant companion. We were
+allowed to take long rambles together, as her father knew she was safe
+under my care. I learnt to carry her basket or parasol for her, and to
+sit faithfully guarding them while she scrambled up banks or through
+bushes, looking for flowers. I was also an excellent swimmer, and could
+fetch sticks which she had thrown to the very middle of the stream. I
+could not make out why she wanted the sticks, as she never took them
+home with her; but we were quite of one mind about fetching them out of
+the water. Often I accompanied her to the village, and lay at the
+cottage-doors while she paid visits to the people inside. Then the
+little children used to gather round me, and pat me, and pull my ears;
+and even if they pulled a little too hard, I scorned to complain, or
+hurt them in return; and when Lily came out, I was rewarded by her
+praise of me as the best and gentlest dog in the world.
+
+At other times she used to establish herself to read or work under a
+tree on the lawn, while I lay at her feet, or sat upright by her side. I
+was careful not to interrupt her when she was busy, but she often left
+off reading to speak to me, and sometimes let me keep my front paw in
+hers as we sat together. These were happy days, and I should have liked
+them to last for ever. But this state of tranquillity was to be
+disturbed, and I am sorry to say by my own folly.
+
+I had insensibly imbibed a notion, or rather a feeling, that I was
+Lily's only pet and favourite, and that nothing else had a right to
+attract her notice. Of course I allowed her to pay proper attention to
+human beings; I knew that I could not come into competition with _them_,
+and therefore I never was jealous of them; but a word or a look
+bestowed upon an inferior animal appeared to me an affront which proper
+self-respect required me to resent.
+
+One day Lily appeared in the garden carrying a little white kitten in
+her arms. I should have liked to have it to worry, and as Lily was very
+good-natured, I thought she had brought it for that purpose; so I sat
+watching ready to snap at it the moment she should toss it at me. After
+a time, I began to think she ought not to tantalise me by keeping me
+waiting so long, and I tried to show my impatience by various signs that
+she could understand. But to my surprise she was not only insensible to
+my hints, but took upon herself to reprove me, saying, "No, Captain,
+that is not being a good dog; you must not want to hurt the poor little
+kitten. Go farther off."
+
+If ever I was affronted in my life it was then. I turned round, and
+shaking my ears, sat down with my back to Lily and her disgusting
+kitten, and absolutely refused even to look round when she spoke to me.
+
+This was the beginning of a period in my life to which I always recur
+with shame and regret. I continued in a state of unmitigated sulks. Even
+Lily could not appease me. If she came to see me by herself, indeed, or
+with only human beings in her train, I brightened up for the moment;
+but if she appeared with the kitten in her arms, my surliness was
+disgraceful. Nobody knows how I detested the kitten. I thought it a
+misfortune to the universe that that kitten should exist.
+
+On thinking it over at this distance of time, I honestly confess that I
+had no right to be jealous; Lily remitted none of her kindness, and gave
+me every proof of much higher regard and esteem than she bestowed on the
+kitten. She fed me, patted me, took me out walking, and talked to me
+just as usual; and as soon as she perceived my objection to her new pet,
+she left off bringing it with her, and was careful to keep it out of my
+sight. But I saw it in spite of all her pains. It was incessantly
+intruding itself upon my notice, sometimes on the roof of the house,
+sometimes jumping from a window-ledge; now perched upon a paling, now
+climbing the pillars of the verandah; and always looking clean and white
+and pretty, with a bit of blue ribbon which Lily had tied round its
+neck, as if on purpose to provoke me. Even when I did not see it, I
+heard it mew; and when I did not hear it, I thought about it.
+
+I was miserable. To be sure I had no right to expect Lily to like nobody
+but me, and I had nothing to complain of; every pleasure and comfort in
+life was mine. Indeed, I think a real grievance would have been rather
+pleasant to me. I should have liked an injustice. I was determined to
+sulk, and should have been glad to have something to sulk at. But no;
+people would persevere in being kind to me. I might be as ill-tempered
+as I pleased; nobody punished, or even scolded me; and whenever I chose
+to be in good humour, my friends were always ready to meet me half-way.
+Indeed, I never was quite sure whether they noticed my ill-temper or
+not. But I did not try to come round, though certainly sulking did not
+conduce to my comfort. I once heard my master remark, in reference to
+some disagreeable human being, that ill-tempered people made themselves
+more unhappy than they made others; so I suppose sulking does not always
+agree even with men; I know it does not with dogs. It was a wretched
+time.
+
+I continued to brood over my imaginary grievances, little thinking how
+soon they would be exchanged for real troubles. I had been discontented
+while every enjoyment was at my command, and now I was to wish in vain
+for the happiness I had neglected. And yet, in the point which I
+considered most important, I had my own way. I one day thought that if
+I were never again to see Lily caressing that kitten, I should be quite
+happy. I never again saw Lily caressing the kitten, and from that day my
+real sorrows began.
+
+There was a bustle in the house. Every thing seemed in confusion. Every
+body was doing something different from usual. Furniture and trunks were
+carried up and down stairs. My master's study was full of great chests;
+and he and Lily, instead of reading the books, spent all their time in
+hiding them in these chests. Next, my friend John came and nailed covers
+on the chests. After the first was nailed down, I jumped upon it, and
+sat watching John while he hammered the others; switching my tail, and
+winking my eyes at every stroke of his hammer, rather surprised at all
+that went on, but yet liking the bustle.
+
+"Ah, poor old boy," said John, "I wonder how you'll take it."
+
+"Take what?" thought I, and wondered too.
+
+One day, John and another man went out with the horses, each riding on
+one and leading another. Thinking they were going to exercise them, I
+followed as I often did; but when we came to the end of the village John
+ordered me home, saying, "Good bye, Captain. Don't forget us, old
+fellow." I returned according to his command, but felt very much
+puzzled, as John had never before sent me home.
+
+On arriving at the house, a waggon was standing at the door, piled up to
+a great height with chests and packages; and on the top of all was
+perched an ugly cur, barking as if he considered himself the master of
+everything. I was willing to make a civil acquaintance with him, but the
+little mongrel had the audacity to bark at _me_,--me in my own
+dominions! I did not think he was worth touching, besides which, I could
+not get at him; but I growled fiercely; and his master, who was loading
+the waggon, desired me to "get out of the way."
+
+Thus rejected on all sides, I betook myself to the court, and rolled
+myself round in the straw of my own kennel, where nobody could affront
+me. There I remained till I heard Lily's sweet voice at a distance
+calling, "Captain, Captain!" I bounded forth once more at the sound, and
+met my pretty mistress in her walking dress, with the basket in her hand
+which I had so often carried. But she did not invite me to accompany
+her. "Poor Captain," said she, "I am come to bid you good bye. I am
+afraid you will miss us sadly; but I hope they will take good care of
+you. Good bye, best of dogs."
+
+"Come, Lily, make haste," I heard my master call from the gate, and Lily
+and I ran towards him. He was standing by a carriage, with the door
+open and the steps let down. The gardener and his wife were near; he
+with his hat in his hand, and she wiping her eyes with the corner of her
+apron. Lily jumped into the carriage, her papa followed her; the
+gardener wished them a pleasant journey, "and a happy return," added his
+wife, and they drove off, Lily keeping her head at the window, and
+kissing her hand to us till she was out of sight.
+
+At first I had no idea that they were not coming back. Though I heard
+the gardener say that they were "gone for good," it did not occur to me
+that that meant harm to us. They often went out for a day and returned
+in the evening; so at the usual time I expected their ring at the bell,
+and went to the gate to meet them. But no bell rang; no carriage drove
+up; no sound of horses' hoofs was to be heard in the distance, though I
+listened till the gardener came to lock up for the night, and ordered me
+to the court, where it was my business to keep guard.
+
+Next morning there was a strange stillness and idleness. No master
+taking his early walk over the grounds. No Lily gathering her flowers
+before breakfast. No John to open the stable door, and let me in to bark
+good morning to the horses. No horses; a boy sweeping the deserted
+stable, and rack and manger empty. No carriage; the coach-house filled
+with lumber, and the shutters closed in the loft. No servants about. I
+rather congratulated myself upon the disappearance of Lily's maid, who
+had a habit of making uncivil speeches if I crossed her path in running
+to meet Lily. That maid and I had never been friends since I once had
+the misfortune to shake myself near her when coming out of the water. I
+confess I did wet her, and I did dirty her; but I did not know that
+water would hurt her coat,--it never hurt mine; and she need not have
+borne malice for ever; I should have forgiven her long ago if she had
+dirtied me. But whenever she saw me she took the opportunity of saying
+something mortifying, as, "Out of the way; don't come nigh me with that
+great mop of yours!" or, "Get along with you! I wonder what Miss Lily
+can see to like in such a great lumbering brute." I kept out of her way
+as much as I could, and it was now some consolation that she did not
+come in mine.
+
+But it was a dull day. In due time the gardener's wife called, and gave
+me my breakfast, setting it down outside the kitchen door. It was a
+comfortable breakfast, for she was a good-natured woman, not likely to
+neglect Lily's charge to take care of me. I wagged my tail, and looked
+up in her face to thank her, but she was already gone without taking
+farther notice of me. She had done her work of giving me the necessaries
+of life, and my feelings were nothing to her. How I remembered my pretty
+Lily, and wished for her pleasant welcome.
+
+After breakfast I went on an expedition to the flower-garden, thinking I
+might have a chance of finding some trace of my mistress in that
+favourite haunt. The gate was shut, but I heard steps, and scratched to
+be let in. I scratched and whined for some time; Lily would not have
+kept me half so long. At last the gardener looked over the top of the
+gate:
+
+"Oh, it's you," said he; "I thought so. But you had best go and amuse
+yourself in places proper for you; you are not coming to walk over my
+flowerbeds any more."
+
+He did not speak unkindly, and I had often heard him tell Lily that I
+was "best out of the flower-garden;" so I could not reasonably grumble;
+but his speech showed the change in my position, and I walked away from
+the closed gate with my mind much oppressed, and my tail between my
+legs.
+
+I intended to go and meditate in the boat, but here again I was
+disappointed; the boat-house was locked; I had no resource but to jump
+into the water and swim to a little island in which Lily had a favourite
+arbour. There in a summer's day she often rested, hidden in jessamine
+and honeysuckle; and there I now took refuge, attracted to the spot by
+its strong association with herself.
+
+I scarcely know whether I sought the arbour with the hope of finding her
+present, or the intention of mourning her absent; but I went to think
+about her. Alas! that was all I could do. She was not there. A book of
+hers had been left unheeded on the ground, and I laid down and placed my
+paws upon it to guard it, as I had often done before. In this position I
+fell asleep, and remained unconscious of fortunes or misfortunes, till I
+was awakened by dreaming of dinner. _That_ dream could be realised. I
+jumped up, shook myself, and yawned more comfortably than I had done all
+day.
+
+On moving my paws from Lily's book, it struck me that it would be right
+to carry it home to her; and then once more the hope revived of finding
+her at home herself. It was the most likely thing in the world that she
+should come home to dinner. Everybody did, I supposed; I was going home
+to dinner myself.
+
+With the book in my mouth, I swam across the water. Perhaps I did not
+keep it quite dry, but I carried it into the house, and laid it down
+before the gardener and his wife, who were the only persons I could see
+on the premises.
+
+"Well, that is sensible, I must confess," said the gardener. "The dumb
+animal has found missy's book, and brought it back. Miss Lily would
+like to hear that."
+
+"Ah, she always thought a deal of the creature," replied his wife; "and
+for her sake he shan't be neglected. Here's your dinner, Captain."
+
+"Give him that bone," said the gardener; "that's what he'll like."
+
+So they gave me a charming bone, quite to my taste; and for a time I
+forgot all my anxieties in the pleasure of turning it round, sucking,
+biting, pawing, and growling over it. I cared for no other dinner;
+indeed I never could understand how people could trouble themselves to
+eat anything else as long as there was a bone to gnaw. But it is
+fortunate there are various tastes in the world; and the strange
+preference of men for other food is convenient for us dogs, as it leaves
+us in more undisputed possession of the bones than if our masters liked
+gnawing them too.
+
+But the pleasure of a bone does not last for ever, and among the nobler
+races of animals Thought cannot be entirely kept under by eating. I have
+heard that greedy human beings sometimes reduce themselves to the
+condition of pigs, who are entirely devoted to cramming; but _I_ should
+not choose to degrade myself to that level. So I soon began meditating,
+and cogitating, and speculating again.
+
+My life now grew every day more and more dismal. Dinner-time brought its
+bone, but bones soon failed to comfort me. The gardener said I was "off
+my feed," and his wife feared I should mope to death. All day I wandered
+about looking for Lily, and at night retired to my kennel, under the sad
+impression that she was farther off than ever. The gardener himself once
+invited me into the flower-garden in hopes of amusing me, and I explored
+all the gravel-walks, carefully avoiding the borders; but there was no
+trace of my lost Lily, and I never cared to visit it again.
+
+One day I thought I would search the house. It was thrown open to me.
+There were no forbidden drawing-rooms now; I prowled about as I pleased.
+If the doors were shut, I might scratch as long as I liked; nobody
+answered. If open, I walked round and round the room, brushing the
+wainscot with my tail. There were no china ornaments to be thrown down
+now, and I might whisk it about as I would. Formerly I had often wished
+for free entrance to those rooms; now I should have welcomed a friendly
+hand that shut me out of them. In passing before a large mirror, I
+marvelled at my own forlorn and neglected appearance. Once, I was worth
+looking at in a glass; now, what a difference! Sorrow had so changed my
+whole aspect, that I stared with dismay at the gaunt spectre which
+stared at me in return, and we howled at each other for company.
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN'S DREAM. Page 40]
+
+Lying down before the blank mirror, which had formerly thrown back so
+many pleasant images, and now reflected only my solitary figure in the
+deserted room, I silently pondered on the past. In a half-wakeful,
+half-dozing state, my eyes alternately opening and shutting, now winking
+and blinking at the glass, now for a moment losing sight of every thing,
+the events of my life seemed to pass before me in a dream; the persons
+with whom I had been connected rose up again as shadows, and I myself
+seemed another shadow gliding about among them, but a shadow whose
+behaviour I had acquired a new faculty of observing.
+
+I saw myself now as others saw me,--an uncommon condition either for
+dogs or men,--and I watched my own deportment in all my states of mind
+and stages of life. I saw myself first a mere puppy, not worth notice.
+The puppy grew, and I saw it as a dog; a fine, well-bred, and certainly
+a fortunate dog. Then as a clever, knowing, useful dog; a gentle,
+patient, obedient dog. Sometimes perhaps an awkward or foolish dog; but
+those were pardonable faults, while I was certainly a brave, honest, and
+faithful dog. But at last I saw myself as a _jealous dog_; and I paused,
+startled at the strange light in which my conduct appeared. How silly,
+unreasonable, and fractious I had been! I plainly perceived that what I
+had taken for injured dignity and wounded affection was nothing but
+pride and envy; that I had not a single ground of complaint, but that my
+own ill-temper might have justly given offence to my best friends; and
+while I had fancied myself setting so high a value upon Lily's regard, I
+was recklessly running the risk of losing it altogether. Happily I had
+been spared _that_ punishment, however well deserved. Lily's friendship
+had never failed me. She had either excused or not perceived my faults,
+and we had parted on the best possible terms.
+
+Now that I could view matters more justly, I was quite out of patience
+with myself for fancying that I should be happy if I no longer saw Lily
+nursing that kitten. Happy indeed! There was no chance of my being
+troubled with such a sight, and I was miserable! I would have put up
+with all the cats and kittens that were met coming from St. Ives; I
+would have tried to settle the quarrel between the Kilkenny cats who ate
+each other up, all but the tips of their tails;--any thing to see Lily
+once more, even if she chose to nurse all the kittens of "Catland."
+
+But it was too late; my regrets were all in vain; and the only course
+that seemed left for me now was to give up the rest of my days to
+brooding over my sorrows and my faults. But before I had quite devoted
+myself to this line of life, I gave a glance at my shadow in the glass
+doing the same. There I saw him moping away all his time; making no
+amends for his bad conduct, no attempts at behaving better; utterly
+useless, sulky, and disagreeable; in fact, more foolish than ever.
+
+"No," thought I, as I jumped up and shook myself all over, "I will not
+have this distressing experience for nothing; I will make good use of
+it; I cannot recall the past, but I will act differently for the
+future;" and down I lay again to make plans for the future. Coming
+events cast no shadows before, either in the glass or in my dreams. I
+knew nothing about what I might, could, would, or should do. The Past I
+had lost, the Future was not in my power; and what remained to me?
+Perhaps I might never have an opportunity of behaving well again.
+
+I was fast relapsing into despondency, when suddenly I was aroused from
+my dreams by a sound once odious to me. I raised myself upon my front
+paws and listened. There was no mistake, I heard it again; a thin and
+timid _mew_, dying away in the distance, and sounding as if it proceeded
+from the mere shadow of a cat. But faint and shadowy as it was, I
+recognised it; it recalled me to realities, and the conviction of my
+right line of conduct flashed across my mind. The Present--the present
+moment was mine. I could only take warning by the past, and hope for the
+future, but I must act _now_. I have but to take every opportunity when
+it offers itself, and there would be no fear of not having opportunities
+enough. Here was one ready at hand. Instead of worrying that kitten, who
+was now in my power, I would magnanimously endure her existence. I would
+do more; I would let her know that she had nothing any longer to fear
+from me; and in pursuance of this kind intention, I walked about the
+room in search of her.
+
+I soon descried her, perched upon the top of a high bookcase, not daring
+to come down for fear of me. She was altered by recent events, though
+not so much as I. She looked forlorn and uncomfortable, but not shaggy,
+haggard, or dirty. The regard to her toilette which had characterised
+her in better days still clung to her, and made her neat and tidy in
+misfortune. The blue ribbon round her neck was indeed faded, but in
+other respects she looked as clean and white and sleek as Lily herself.
+She had evidently licked herself all over every day, instead of moping
+in the dirt. She and Lily had always been somewhat alike in point of
+cleanliness. Indeed, I once imagined that Lily must lick herself all
+over in order to look so clean; but on further consideration I had
+reason to believe that she commonly attained her object by plunging into
+cold water, more after my own fashion.
+
+But to return to the kitten. There she stood, the very picture of fear;
+her legs stretched, her tail arched, her back raised, trying to assume
+the best posture of defence she could, but evidently believing it of no
+use. She mewed louder at every step I took nearer. Even if I had been
+inclined to harm her, she was safe enough on the top of that high
+bookcase; but she did not know that. In her inexperience, she fancied me
+able to spring about the world as she did, and expected every moment
+that I should perch on the carved oak crown, and seize her in my mouth,
+jump down again and crunch her as she would a mouse.
+
+She began running backwards and forwards on the top of her bookcase,
+mewing piteously at every turn. I understood her language: it meant,
+"Oh, what shall I do? Mew, mew! Pray, my lord, have pity upon an
+unfortunate kitten! Mew, mew, mew! If you will let me run away this
+time, I will keep out of your lordship's sight all the rest of my life.
+Mew, mew, mew! Oh dear, I had not the least intention of intruding on
+your highness; I thought your majesty was in the stable. I wish I was
+in the coal-cellar myself. Oh, oh, pray! oh, mew!"
+
+So she went on for a long time, in too great a fright to observe the
+encouragement and condescension which I threw into my countenance and
+manner. I sat down in front of the bookcase, and holding my head on one
+side, looked up at her with an expression of gentle benevolence, which I
+thought must re-assure the most timid spirit. It had some effect. She
+ceased running from side to side, and stopped opposite me, her yellow
+eyes fixed on mine. I returned her gaze, and wagged my tail. She lowered
+hers, which bad been held up like a peacock's, and reduced to its
+natural dimensions. After a sufficient amount of staring, we began to
+understand one another, and Pussy's mews were in a very different tone,
+and one much more satisfactory to me.
+
+[Illustration: PUSS AND THE CAPTAIN. Page 46]
+
+Though every animal makes use of a dialect of its own, so different as
+to appear to men a distinct language for each race,--for instance, the
+barking of a dog, the mewing of a cat, the bellowing of a bull,
+&c.,--still, a general mode of expression is common to all, and all can
+understand and be understood by one another. The reason of this is, that
+the universal language is that of _feeling_ only, which is alike to
+every one, and can be made evident by the most inarticulate sounds.
+Moans, murmurs, sighs, whines, growls, roars, are sufficient to
+express our _feelings_: our _thoughts_, when we have any, we must keep
+to ourselves; for they cannot be made intelligible by mere sound without
+speech, and speech we know belongs to man alone. In fact, I suppose it
+is the power of thinking and speaking which makes him our master;
+without it, I am not at all sure that he would have so much the upper
+hand of us, for we are often the strongest. But a man can always know
+what he means to do, and why he means to do it; and he can tell others,
+and consult them about it; which, of course, gives him an immense
+advantage over us, who only act upon the spur of the moment, without
+knowing whether we are right or wrong.
+
+Good-nature was all that Pussy and I wanted to express just now, and
+_that_ is always easy to show, with or without words. Mews in various
+tones from her were met by small, good-humoured half-barks and agreeable
+grunts from me, till at last she fairly left off mewing, and began to
+purr. Much pleased with my success so far, I now lay down, stretching
+out my front paws to their full length before, and my tail behind,
+brushing the floor in a half-circle with the latter. Then I yawned in a
+friendly way, and finally laid my head down on my paws to watch my
+little protegee quietly, in hopes of enticing her from her fortress.
+
+This last insinuating attitude decided her. She gently placed first one
+little white paw, and then another, on projecting ornaments of the
+bookcase, one step on the lion, and the next on the unicorn; and without
+hurting either herself or the delicate carved work which she chose to
+use as her staircase, she alighted harmless and unharmed within my
+reach. Then she mewed once more; but that was her last expression of
+doubt or dread. I soon reassured her; and that moment was the first of a
+confidence and intimacy seldom seen between our uncongenial races.
+
+We had now, in our way, a long conversation, during which we became
+pretty well acquainted with each other's dispositions; and in due time
+we descended the stairs together in perfect amity; I gravely walked step
+by step, and looking up benignly at the gambols of little Pussy, who,
+now in high spirits, had no idea of coming down in a regular way, but
+must scramble up the banisters, hang by her claws from the hand-rail,
+recover herself instantaneously when within an inch of falling headlong
+into the hall, and play a hundred other wild tricks. A short time
+before, I should have thought all this a most despicable waste of time
+and strength; but now I could see that it did her good and made her
+happy, and I looked on rather with approbation.
+
+I shall never forget the surprise of the gardener's wife when Puss and I
+entered the kitchen side by side. She screamed as if we had been a
+couple of wild beasts.
+
+"Oh," cried she, "there's that poor little kitten just under Captain's
+nose! He'll be the death of her. What shall I do?"
+
+She seized a broom, and held it between us, ready to beat me if I
+ventured to attack the kitten. But I wagged my tail, and Puss jumped
+over the broomstick.
+
+"Well to be sure!" said Mrs. Gardener, letting fall the broom, and
+holding up her hands; "did any body ever see the like of that!"
+
+She placed a saucer of milk on the floor, and I sat quietly and let the
+kitten drink it. The kitten herself was a little surprised at this, and
+hesitated before beginning, not knowing exactly what it might be proper
+for her to do; indeed, I could scarcely expect her to understand the
+etiquette of so unusual a circumstance; but she had a great deal of
+tact, and soon perceived that I wished her to go on naturally; so she
+began lapping, though looking round at me between every two or three
+mouthfuls, to make sure that she was not taking a liberty. But meeting
+with nothing but encouragement, she finished her repast with great
+satisfaction, and we both laid ourselves down by the kitchen-fire, as
+if we had been friends all our lives.
+
+"Well to be sure!" exclaimed the gardener's wife again. It was her
+favourite phrase; she seemed never to tire of it, and to have little
+else to say; but I understood what she meant, and took a comfortable nap
+in consequence.
+
+By and by came dinner, and a pleasant little meal it was. Instead of
+flying at the kitten for presuming to eat at all, I quite enjoyed having
+a companion. My platter stood, as usual, in the yard, and Pussy's in a
+corner of the kitchen; but by mutual consent we began dragging our
+respective bones along the ground to eat in company; and the gardener's
+wife seeing the proceeding, carried our plates for us, and placed them
+side by side outside the door, and we finished our meal in the most
+sociable manner.
+
+Times were now altered: but I need not give a detailed account of every
+day. The good understanding between Pussy and me continued to increase,
+till it ripened into the warmest friendship. Uncongenial companion as
+she appeared, I grew by degrees fonder of her than I had ever been of
+any of my own tribe; and although our habits were by nature totally
+dissimilar, we learned to understand, and even to take pleasure in
+accommodating ourselves to each other's little peculiarities.
+
+I confess this was not done in a moment. At first I certainly was
+occasionally annoyed by Pussy's inconsistencies. She would profess to be
+so refined, that a speck of dirt on her white coat made her unhappy; so
+delicate, that she could not endure to wet her feet; so modest, that she
+could not bear to be looked at while she was eating; while at the same
+time she would scamper into the dirtiest hole after a mouse, and then
+devour the nasty vermin with a satisfaction quite disgusting to a
+well-bred sporting dog like myself.
+
+I wished to educate her in the sentiments and habits of my own nobler
+race, but I found it a hopeless task. If I took her out for a walk, and
+tried to impress her with the pleasure of a good healthy swim in the
+pond, she listened politely; but in spite of all my arguments, when we
+arrived at the water's edge, and I plunged in, she never could be
+induced to follow; there she stood, mewing and shivering on the brink,
+not daring even to wet her claws. If I objected to her mice, she argued
+that they were her natural food, and agreed with her; and so on through
+all my attempts to reform her.
+
+The little creature had generally an answer ready; and what was
+peculiarly provoking to a person unused to contradiction, like myself,
+she often disputed points upon which I had supposed there could be but
+one opinion. When I was trying to shame her into being more like a dog,
+she actually told me that she doubted whether mine really was the nobler
+race, for that the lion was her chief, and she challenged me to show his
+equal. This was the more irritating because I could not answer it; and I
+take some credit to myself for having kept my temper on the occasion, as
+I did feel tempted to give her a shake. Luckily it occurred to me that
+quarrelling with people for being in the right would not put them in the
+wrong, and that shaking them might not be the way to shake their
+opinions. So I was silent, and pretended to be indulgent.
+
+After all, the little cat had received an education extremely suitable
+to her character and circumstances. Lily had made an in-door companion
+of her, as she had made an out-door one of me, and had taken great pains
+to cultivate her natural talents. Her manners were perfect. It was
+impossible to be more gentle, graceful, and courteous than Puss. Always
+at hand, but never in the way; quick in observing, but slow in
+interfering; active and ready in her own work, but quiet and retiring
+when not required to come forward; affectionate in her temper, and
+regular in her habits,--she was a thoroughly feminine domestic
+character.
+
+She had her own ideas about me, which she communicated to me when we
+were sufficiently intimate for her to speak openly. Perhaps she did not
+admire me quite so much as I admired myself; but perhaps she was
+right--who knows? I have heard that even among men, lookers-on are
+sometimes the best judges. She did full justice to my strength and
+courage, and applauded my daring way of rushing upon an enemy, without
+regard to his size or position, instead of running into a corner and
+spitting at him. She admitted, without hesitation, that mine was the
+superior proceeding; but she suggested, that perhaps it might be as well
+not to be quite so ready to attack other dogs before they had given me
+any offence: also that it was unnecessary to suppose that every man who
+came to the house _must_ have bad intentions, whether he gave me just
+cause for suspicion or not. In fact, she hinted that it was good to be
+brave, but bad to be quarrelsome. Then as to my personal appearance, she
+acknowledged that I was larger and handsomer than she, and that my
+rough, shaggy coat was far from unbecoming; but when I laughed at her
+finical cleanliness, and called her affected for not keeping her own
+white fur as rough and muddy as mine, she reminded me that it was that
+very neatness, so despised by me, which had procured her entrance into
+Lily's drawing-room, while I, with all my good qualities, was never
+allowed to come up stairs.
+
+I had always thought it rather grand to bang about in a careless manner;
+and if I knocked any thing down, I supposed it was the thing's fault. I
+once swept down with my tail a whole trayful of crockery; and when I was
+scolded for doing mischief, I thought it quite sufficient excuse to say
+to myself, "I did not do it on purpose; what is the use of making such a
+fuss?" But I now saw clearly that Pussy's care not to do any mischief at
+all was both more agreeable to others and more advantageous to herself.
+
+For instance, the gardener's wife turned me out in the cold while she
+was washing the china, whereas she let Pussy walk about on the very
+table among the cups and saucers, stepping so carefully with her soft
+little paws that there was no danger of any breakage. I have seen her
+walk along the edge of every shelf on the dresser, without disarranging
+a single plate. Then, while I was despising Puss for catching mice, I
+heard the gardener's wife giving her the highest praise for being an
+excellent mouser; and to my surprise, I found out that it was the
+regular work for which she was kept in the house.
+
+So, as time went on, we learnt to understand each other better and
+better, and our companionship was useful in teaching us to be less
+narrow-minded in our estimation of each other and things in general. I
+discovered that it was not necessary for every body to be exactly alike;
+that cats and dogs, and perhaps also men and women, had a right each to
+his own character; and that people must be mutually accommodating, every
+body giving up a little, and no one expecting to make his own way the
+rule for every body. And Pussy learnt herself, and taught me another
+lesson, that every body is one's superior in something, so that any body
+may improve by taking pattern by any body else; I mean, by looking for
+and imitating their good qualities, instead of picking out and snarling
+over their faults.
+
+Time slipped away very happily and imperceptibly. There were few changes
+in our mode of life; though Pussy, from a kitten, in due time became a
+full-grown cat, who left off running after her tail and climbing up the
+banisters, and walked up and down stairs as steadily as I did myself. In
+other respects our relations remained the same; I was the patron and
+protector, she the friend and companion, sharing the same kennel and the
+same platter, and both metamorphosed from the bitterest enemies into the
+comfort and delight of each other's lives.
+
+One day while we were basking in the sunshine, with our eyes half shut,
+and Pussy purring pleasantly, I heard the sound of wheels at a distance.
+Supposing it to be the baker's cart, I roused myself, and ran to the
+gate, according to custom, to see him give in the bread. But long before
+the vehicle came in sight, I smelt the difference between it and the
+baker's cart. It came nearer; I felt in a state of uncommon agitation;
+old recollections and associations returned with extraordinary
+vividness, and my eagerness was intense till the carriage stopped at the
+door. No wonder I had been so much excited; for who should be on the box
+but my old friend John? and who should get out of the carriage but my
+master himself.
+
+Was I not in raptures! And did I not jump and tear about the court in my
+joy! Pussy sat at the window watching my vagaries with astonishment.
+When she understood the state of the case, she was very glad to see our
+master, but expressed her pleasure in a more moderate way than I.
+
+My master and John were cordial in their greetings to every body, but
+they seemed very busy, and spent the rest of the day in walking over the
+place and giving a number of orders. I followed close at their heels,
+very happy to be in their company once more. The gardener and his wife
+made many inquiries about Lily, as I would have done myself if I could;
+and I listened eagerly to my master's replies, though I was rather
+puzzled by some of them. He said she was quite well and very happy, but
+that he missed her sadly.
+
+"I can understand _that_," thought I, as I looked up at him in sympathy.
+
+I believe he understood me, for he patted my head, saying, "Poor
+Captain, she was very fond of you."
+
+The gardener and his wife said that they had been "quite proud to hear
+the news, for that if any body deserved her it was Sir Rodolph;" and my
+master answered, "True, true; I must not complain of giving her up to
+_him_."
+
+Although I could not make out her history very accurately; but on
+discussing it with Puss, and putting together everything that we heard
+my master say in the garden, and John say in the kitchen, we came to the
+conclusion that Lily was gone to live at some distance in a home of her
+own; that Craven's good elder brother was her companion there; and that
+her papa was much pleased with the arrangement, though he lost her
+company. It seemed an odd affair to Pussy and me, and we purred and
+pondered over it. Puss confessed that she could not understand a
+person's leaving the house in which she was born. My views were larger.
+I could imagine being contented in any place, provided my friends were
+there too; but the separation from friends seemed an unnatural
+proceeding. However, John had distinctly said that her papa was very
+much pleased; so we decided that human beings were gifted with greater
+powers than ourselves of bearing change, and making themselves happy and
+useful under a variety of circumstances. For we had no doubt of Lily's
+being happy and useful wherever she might be. I could as soon have
+fancied myself encouraging my thieves, or Puss neglecting her mice, as
+Lily idle or out of spirits.
+
+In the course of the next day, John brought the carriage to the door
+again, and invited me to take a drive. Much flattered, I scrambled to
+the box, and sat by his side as steadily as I could, though the movement
+of the carriage was not much to my taste. Several times I could not
+resist trying to get down and run by the side; but John scolded me and
+held me fast, only indulging me with an occasional scamper when we were
+going up hill.
+
+I had not omitted a good-humoured bark to Pussy when we started, by way
+of farewell; for she came to see us off, though she was too humble to
+expect an invitation to join the party. I fully supposed that we should
+return in an hour or two, and that I should have the pleasure of telling
+her my morning's adventures. But we travelled up hill and down hill,
+through strange villages and an unknown country, and still we went on
+and on, without any symptoms of turning.
+
+In time we stopped at an inn, where my master had his dinner; and I went
+with John to the stables, and saw him feed the horses, and then followed
+him to the kitchen, where he too ate his dinner, and gave some to me.
+Then we set off on our journey again. Now I thought we were surely going
+home; but no; still straight on through new roads all day till the sun
+went down and the evening grew so dark that I could not see the country;
+and yet no talk of returning. John stopped the carriage, and lighted the
+lamps; and then on again, at the same steady pace, through the unknown
+land.
+
+Tired of travelling in the wrong direction, as it appeared to me, and
+without any object, I curled myself round at John's feet and took a long
+nap. On waking, I found myself in a scene altogether strange to me. We
+were passing through the streets of a city. I sat up and turned my head
+from side to side, quite bewildered by the difference between such a
+place and the country villages in which I had passed my life.
+
+"Ah, you may well look about you," said John; "you are not the only one
+that hasn't known what to make of London."
+
+The noise and confusion were astonishing. Though it was now so late
+that every body ought to have been asleep in their kennels, the
+innumerable lights in the houses made the night as bright as day. The
+streets were swarming with people; men and women, carriages and horses,
+even dogs and cats, met us every moment. I supposed they must be a kind
+of savages, who came out in the night like wild beasts, and I tried
+barking at them to frighten them back to their dens; but it had no
+effect, and John bade me be quiet. Indeed, I myself perceived that it
+would be a hopeless task to bark at everybody that went by. Their
+numbers were like the autumn leaves falling from the trees in our avenue
+during a high wind, and I could only suppose that next day I should find
+them all swept up in heaps at the side of the road.
+
+At last we stopped before a house; and very glad I was to be ordered to
+jump down and go in, and not at all sorry for the good supper that was
+presently given me. I was too tired even to wonder where I was, or to do
+or think of anything that night except going to sleep; and that I did
+thoroughly, after my long journey.
+
+But next day I was myself again, and up early to explore the premises.
+What I saw at first was not much to my taste. I did not admire my
+kennel; it was decidedly dull, fixed in the corner of a small courtyard
+surrounded by high walls. No trees, no river, no garden; nothing to be
+seen but a square patch of sky above the walls; nothing to be heard but
+a continual heavy rumbling outside. I soon grew tired of watching the
+clouds, and pacing round the little court; and as soon as the house was
+open, I found my way to the street door. _There_ I could certainly not
+complain of being dull. If London had seemed bustling the night before,
+what was it now by broad daylight, with the full sun shining on the
+countless passengers! I could scarcely keep still myself, with the
+excitement of watching such incessant movement.
+
+To my great disappointment, before long, John called me in, fearing that
+I might stray from the house and be lost or stolen. Of course, I obeyed
+him directly; but he perceived my vexation, and good-naturedly showed me
+a locker under the hall-window, where I might sit and study the humours
+of London at my pleasure. I thought I should never be tired of looking
+out of that window. The scene was so new and charming, that it
+reconciled me at once to my present situation, and even to the hours
+which might necessarily be passed in my ugly kennel. I really preferred
+it to the Manor.
+
+There, even while my master and Lily were living with me, we were a good
+deal left to ourselves. A few foot passengers and carts might come by
+in the course of the day, carriages and horses perhaps once in a week.
+Visitors, if they came, stayed for hours, so that I had ample time to
+make myself master of their characters, as well as those of their horses
+and dogs. Every body whom I knew at all, I knew intimately; and
+notwithstanding Pussy's hints about rash judgments, I doubt whether I
+was ever really in danger of mistaking an honest man for a thief. But if
+my old home was more favourable to tranquil reflection, certainly this
+place had the advantage of amusement and variety. Here there was no time
+for studying character, nor doing anything else _leisurely_. I scarcely
+caught a glimpse of any one, before he was out of sight. A quiet nap was
+out of the question; if I so much as winked, I lost the view of
+something. The stream of comers and goers was ever flowing. Nobody stood
+still, nobody turned back; nobody walked up and down, as my master and
+his visitors used on the terrace, while I observed their manners; here,
+as soon as one had passed, his place was taken by another. I watched for
+hours, expecting that some time or other they would all have gone by,
+and the street be left to silence and to me. But nothing of the sort
+happened; they were still going on and on, crossing each other in every
+direction; and for as many as went by, there seemed always twice as many
+yet to come.
+
+In time I grew less confused, and I went out walking with my master or
+John until I knew my way about the streets, so that I could be trusted
+to go out by myself and come safe home again.
+
+The care of the house also devolved once more upon me; and it was a more
+responsible charge than at home, on account of the immense variety of
+characters which I was obliged to understand. As to bribery, whether in
+town or country, I was always incorruptible; but I found it necessary to
+quicken my powers of observation, in order to be up to my duty in
+London. I used sometimes to single out a suspicious individual in the
+crowd, and follow him through two or three streets, till I had
+thoroughly smelt out his character; and before long, I saw all I wanted
+so quickly and accurately, that John himself was ready to submit his
+judgment to mine. I learned to know my man, and to make him know me too;
+and it would have required a daring thief to attempt our house.
+
+I own I soon thoroughly enjoyed London and its ways, and quite left off
+wishing to return to the monotony of the Manor. But though my life was
+pleasant, let nobody do me the injustice to imagine that either its
+novelty or its occupation could banish from my memory the dear little
+companion who had formed my happiness at home. Forget my Pussy I never
+did, though for a time I seemed contented without her. But, for the
+first few days, I constantly expected to see her arrive. I took it for
+granted that she would be brought to London just as I had been myself;
+and every evening, at the hour of our own arrival, I went to the
+hall-door, and sat patiently on the mat for a considerable time, fully
+expecting every moment that a carriage would stop, and that I should be
+the first to welcome my friend.
+
+But day after day passed without bringing her. Plenty of other cats were
+clambering about the roof of the house, or showing themselves against
+the sky on the top of the wall; but they were all cross and spiteful,
+setting up their backs and snarling at me if I only looked at them. I
+had no wish to make their acquaintance, for there was but one cat in the
+world that I cared for. My love was for the individual, not the race.
+Dogs were numerous in the neighbourhood, and among them were several
+intelligent, cultivated animals with whom I could be on pleasant barking
+terms; but friendship is not made in a day, and these new acquaintances
+could not make up for the want of my cat.
+
+As I grew weary of watching for her in vain, I left off waiting at the
+hall-door, and passed my evenings in thinking about her, sometimes by
+the kitchen fire, sometimes in the study, on the rug at my master's
+feet. But the more I thought about her, the more I missed her, till at
+last I quite lost all my spirits. I could not eat my food without her to
+partake of it; I scarcely cared to growl, and took no pleasure in
+barking. In short, I pined for her as I had once done for Lily; and John
+and my master asked each other every day what could be the matter with
+me.
+
+At last, finding it impossible to bear such a life any longer, I began
+to consider whether there was no remedy in my power. I knew that if my
+master objected to any thing, he did not lie on the rug and mope, but he
+worked hard to set it to rights. The more I thought about it, the more I
+perceived that mere thinking would not do; I must set to work and help
+myself. So I took my resolution, and determined to risk every thing
+rather than go on in this dawdling way, fretting my heart out.
+
+But how? Why, how did I come here myself? People had tried to bring me,
+and succeeded; why should not I try to bring Pussy? I might not succeed,
+for I did not conceal from myself the difficulties of the undertaking;
+but what great enterprise was ever accomplished without danger or
+difficulty? At any rate, it was worth the trial; and if I _did_ succeed,
+Pussy was worth every thing. So, as she would not come, I would go and
+fetch her.
+
+This once decided, it was evident that the sooner I set off the better;
+because the road not being familiar to me, it was important that I
+should travel it again before all traces of our former journey were
+lost. As yet, we had not been so long in London but that I had reason to
+think I should recognise the principal turnings, besides various objects
+on the road. I had been asleep during part of the journey, it is true;
+but I hoped that my acute sense of smell would come to my help when
+eyesight failed.
+
+And here I reflected with satisfaction upon the many advantages I had
+over my master in travelling. First, what a much better nose mine was!
+His seemed of very little use to him up in the air, out of reach of the
+ground. If he had not been able to ask his way, I am sure he could never
+have found it out by smelling. Then, how inconvenient to be obliged to
+carry so many things with him! He could not move without a portmanteau
+or a carpet-bag full of strange clothes, instead of being contented with
+one good coat on his back. I never could understand why any body should
+want more than one coat. Mine was always new, always comfortable,
+suited to all seasons, and fitting beautifully, having adapted itself to
+my growth at all stages of my life, without any attention from me. _I_
+never had any trouble with tailors, snipping and measuring, trying on
+and altering. My coat would dry on me too, whereas my poor master could
+not even jump into the river without taking his off; if it so much as
+rained, he wanted an umbrella. Then, he never seemed able to run any
+distance. For a few hundred yards it was all very well, but after that
+he began to walk; and if he made a single day's journey, he was obliged
+to be helped by a horse. Poor man! I pitied him; and yet I never for a
+moment hesitated to acknowledge him as my master; for, with all his
+detects, I felt that he was in possession of some faculty
+incomprehensible to me, but which overpowered a thousand and a thousand
+times the utmost animal superiority.
+
+But to return to my own adventures. I determined to find my way to my
+native village as a dog best might, without delay. So the next morning I
+set off, following my nose, which was my best guide, through the
+intricacies of the London streets. More than once I took a wrong turn;
+but after going a little way up the street, I always discovered my
+mistake, and retraced my steps.
+
+Once I met two gentlemen whom I knew. One asked the other if I was not
+my master's dog; the other looked round and called, "Captain! Captain!"
+I was very near wagging my tail and looking up at the familiar sound,
+but I fortunately recollected myself in time. As he was not my master, I
+was not bound to be obedient; so I held my ears and tail still by a
+strong determination, and trotted on, taking no notice.
+
+Another time, as I was sniffing the ground where several streets
+branched off, I heard an ill-toned voice say, "There's a dog that has
+lost his master."
+
+"Fine dog, too," said another; "there will be a good reward advertised
+for him."
+
+"Humph, there's more to be made by him than that," replied the first;
+and as I looked up at him, I recognised the very man whom I had formerly
+prevented from breaking into my master's country house. I growled
+fiercely; and if he had attempted to approach me, I was prepared for a
+spring at his throat.
+
+"He seems to have a spite against you; best leave him alone," said the
+other. And the two turned away, evidently aware that it would not be
+safe to meddle with me; and I once more pursued my journey in quiet.
+
+Having my own reasons for not wishing to attract attention, I jostled
+against as few passengers as possible, and did my utmost to keep clear
+of inquisitive dogs or arrogant horses, so that I met with few
+obstacles, and before mid-day arrived safely at the outskirts of London.
+Then my way became much plainer; a country road, with hedges and fields
+on each side, was easily tracked; and I could hold up my head in comfort
+as I ran along at a good pace, instead of keeping my nose close to the
+ground for fear of losing my way.
+
+I came to a place where four roads met, and there, though but for a few
+moments, I was perplexed. There was a sign-post, but that was nothing to
+me; it might have been useful to my poor master, but to me it was only
+one of his many encumbrances, which were superseded by my nose.
+
+So I followed my nose up one of the roads; it would not do. Up a second
+and a third; still my nose refused assent. As there was but one road
+more, I had no further choice; so I troubled my nose no more, but
+galloped joyfully ahead without any difficulty on the subject, wondering
+whether my master would have found the way by his reason as surely as I
+by my instinct.
+
+As the day went on, I began to grow uncommonly hungry; that is to say,
+hungry for _me_, who had never yet known what it was to want a meal.
+Accustomed to regular daily food as often as I required it, I do not
+suppose that in my comfortable life I ever knew what real hunger was,
+such hunger as is felt by poor creatures with but scanty food for one
+day, and uncertain even of _that_ for the next. But I felt that I should
+like my dinner; and, for the first time in my life, was called upon to
+find it for myself.
+
+And, really, when a person has been accustomed to see set before him
+every day, at his own hour, on his own platter, a supply of bread and
+meat nicely mixed, with perhaps some pudding to finish it, and no
+trouble required on his part but to eat it tidily, and say "Thank you"
+after his fashion, it is no small puzzle suddenly to be obliged to
+provide his own dinner from beginning to end--catching, cooking, and
+serving it up. There are more in the world than I who would know how to
+do nothing but eat it. If I had been a wild dog, used to the habits of
+savage life, I might have hunted down some smaller animal as wild as
+myself, torn it to pieces, and devoured it raw; but I was a civilised
+creature, so altered by education, that in my hunting days I always
+brought the game to my master instead of eating it myself; and here, on
+the London high road, there was not even game to be caught. I really
+was quite at a loss what to do.
+
+In course of time I came up with a traveller sitting under a hedge,
+eating a lump of bread and cheese. I would not have accepted bread and
+cheese at home if it had been offered me, but now I stopped in front of
+the eater and began to beg for some, licking my lips, and wagging my
+tail in my most insinuating manner.
+
+He threw me a scrap of coarse bread, saying, "There's for you; but I
+dare say you are too well fed to eat it."
+
+His supposition would have been true enough the day before; but hunger
+cures daintiness, and now I was glad of such a mouthful. I bolted it in
+an instant, and looked for more. He threw me one other crust, saying
+that was all he could spare; and, finishing the rest himself, went on
+his way, leaving me as hungry as ever.
+
+By and by, in passing through a village, I came to a butcher's shop. The
+butcher was not in sight, and meat was spread in the most tempting
+manner on the board.
+
+"How easily," thought I, "I could steal that nice raw chop, and run away
+with it! Nobody could see me, and I do not believe any body could catch
+me."
+
+_Steal it_--the thought startled me. Brought up from my earliest
+puppyhood in the strictest principles of honesty; able, as I imagined,
+to see the best-stocked larder, or the most amply-supplied table,
+without even wishing to touch what was not my own;--was I now, on the
+very first temptation, the first time in my life that I had ever been
+really hungry, to forget all I had been taught, and to become a _thief_?
+Was it only the fear of blows that had kept me honest? Was my honesty
+worthy the name, if I was only honest when I had no temptation to be
+otherwise? I was ashamed of myself, and turning from the shop, passed on
+with drooping ears.
+
+Presently I met with a dog so extra fat as to show plainly that he had
+never gone without his dinner, and yet he was growling over a bone as if
+he had been starving. On looking more closely at him, I perceived that
+he was in possession of two bones, either of them enough for one dog;
+but he was unable to make use of one, for fear of the other's being
+taken from him. So there he lay, with his paws upon both, growling
+instead of enjoying himself. He was a larger dog than I, but not nearly
+so strong, being grown helpless and unwieldly through long habits of
+greediness and laziness. I saw that I could easily master him and take
+one of his bones by brute force, and at first I felt inclined to help
+myself by this means. I thought I had a good right so to do. I actually
+wanted the necessaries of life, while he was revelling in superfluous
+luxury. Was I not justified, nay more, was I not bound in common sense
+and justice to take from him what he did not want, and give it to myself
+who did want it? Even if I robbed him of one of his bones, I should
+leave him as much as I took away.
+
+_Robbed_--another awkward word! I paused again. Assault and robbery were
+perhaps not so mean as sneaking theft, but were they more allowable? The
+bones were his own, his property; given to him by some one who had a
+right to dispose of them; and though at this moment I might wish for a
+more equal distribution, I had sense enough to know that it would be a
+bad state of things if every dog were to seize upon every neighbouring
+dog's bones at his own discretion. It might suit me at this moment, but
+to-morrow a stronger dog might think that _I_ had too much, and insist
+upon my relinquishing half of _my_ dinner. Who was to be the judge?
+Every dog would differ in opinion as to how much was his own fair share,
+and how much might be left to his neighbour. No large dog would allow
+another to dine while he himself was hungry; and it would end by the
+strongest getting all the bones, while the poor, inferior curs were
+worse off than ever. So I determined to respect the rights of property,
+for the sake of small dogs as well as for my own.
+
+After all, starvation was not inevitable. It might be possible to get a
+dinner without fighting for it. I sat down opposite my new acquaintance,
+and entered into civil conversation with him. I found him much more
+friendly than I expected. He had certainly been accustomed to more
+indulgence and idleness than was good for him, but his natural
+disposition was not entirely spoilt. He was the peculiar pet of a lady,
+who thought it kindness to cram him from morning till night with food
+that disagreed with him, to provide him with no occupation, and to
+deprive him of healthy exercise, so that no wonder he had grown lazy and
+selfish; but his native spirit was not entirely extinguished, and he
+assured me that a bare bone to growl over, and a little comfortable rain
+and mud to disport himself in like a dog, were still the greatest treats
+that could be offered to him. His temper had been farther soured by the
+spite and envy of dogs around him, who, less petted themselves, and not
+aware how little his petting contributed to his comfort, grudged him
+every thing that he possessed, and lost no opportunity of snapping and
+snarling at him.
+
+When I reflected on the difference between his circumstances and my own,
+I felt more inclined to pity than to blame him; but though I condoled
+with him kindly, and whined in sympathy, I took care to give him the
+best advice in my power, and to suggest such changes in his own conduct
+as might tend to better his lot.
+
+He listened with patience and candour, and showed his gratitude by
+treating me with the most cordial hospitality. He gave me an excellent
+bone, and offered to share his kennel with me; but after my dinner and a
+nap I was so thoroughly refreshed, that I preferred continuing my
+journey. He pressed me to call on him in my way back, provided I
+returned alone; but honestly confessed that if I was accompanied by a
+cat, he feared that the force of habit might be too strong to allow of
+his being as polite to her as he could wish. Remembering my own early
+prejudices, I had no right to blame him; and we parted excellent
+friends, though I declined his invitation.
+
+I met with no more adventures or difficulties. Even my night's lodging
+gave me no trouble; for when it was growing dark, and I felt too tired
+to run any farther, I espied a heap of straw thrown out by the
+stable-door of a roadside inn, and I soon scratched and smoothed it into
+as comfortable a bed as dog need wish. By break of day I was on my
+travels again; and being now near my native village, in a road of which
+I knew every step, I had no further perplexity, and by breakfast-time
+arrived at my old home.
+
+It had never occurred to me that any body would be surprised to see me.
+Having always met with a hearty welcome, I expected one as a matter of
+course; but I certainly never anticipated being received with a shout of
+astonishment, and to this day I cannot understand why they were all so
+amazed. But so it was. When the gardener opened the gate and saw me
+sitting outside, he started as if I had been a strange dog going to fly
+at him; and instead of speaking to me, began calling as loud as he could
+to his wife:
+
+"Peggy! why, Peggy, make haste, I say. Here's the dog! How did he ever
+come here?"
+
+The old lady came bustling along at double her usual speed, and I
+thought she would immediately explain my appearance; but she seemed even
+more surprised than her husband; she fairly screamed.
+
+"Well to be sure!" exclaimed she as usual, as soon as she had recovered
+her breath; "well to be sure! Did any body ever see such a thing? How
+can he have come? Do you think master is on the road?"
+
+"I'll run down to the turnpike and see," answered her husband; and off
+he set, without bestowing a word upon me; his wife meanwhile, with her
+apron thrown over her head, straining her eyes to look after him. I
+wagged my tail, and patted her with my paw, and did my best to make her
+understand that I was there on my own account; but her head was too full
+of fancies to attend to the reality, and she persisted in looking out
+for my master who was not coming, and neglecting me who was there under
+her eyes. So I left her to find out the state of the case as she could,
+and turned my steps towards the house, where I hoped to meet a friend,
+who would think nothing so natural as my being at her side.
+
+I peeped in at the kitchen window, and there sat my Pussy, in her old
+place before the fire, looking just as when I left her--the neatest,
+whitest, softest, and gentlest of creatures. _She_ was not surprised to
+see me. She winked and blinked a little, as if she was dreaming of me at
+that moment, and was afraid to open her eyes more than half-way, lest
+the dream should vanish; but at last she opened them altogether, and the
+dream turned to reality. Then, had we not a happy meeting!
+
+There was much to tell on both sides before we could properly discuss
+the grand object of my coming, and our time was a good deal taken up by
+a constant succession of visitors; not dogs or cats, as might have been
+expected, but boys and girls, men and women, friends of the servants,
+all pouring in to see _me_. From the time that the gardener and his wife
+had satisfied themselves that my master was not coming with me, they
+seemed to consider my arrival stranger than ever, and to think it
+necessary to inform every body of the circumstances,--though I should
+certainly have supposed there would be more wonder in seeing two persons
+than one. Pussy did not approve of so much company, as she always
+disliked to be stared at; I, being of a less retiring turn of mind, was
+perhaps rather flattered by the notice; but, by the time evening came,
+even I was glad to have the house quiet. Then we lay by the fire, and
+explained all our feelings to each other.
+
+I described to my friend how unhappy I had been without her, and how
+amidst all the pleasures of London I had languished for her company,
+till I could bear my loneliness no longer; and I entreated her, for my
+sake, to relinquish all her present habits, and to try a new life and a
+new home.
+
+She heard me with much sympathy, and owned that she too had been
+unhappy; and that, notwithstanding the placid exterior which she had
+thought it right to keep up, she had missed me quite as much as I missed
+her. But she did not at once, as I hoped, agree eagerly to my proposal
+of accompanying me to London. She hesitated. The journey seemed an
+arduous undertaking. What strange dogs she might meet! what showers of
+rain! what obstacles of all kinds, that had never suggested themselves
+to me!
+
+I strenuously combated all her objections, trying to convince her that
+the journey which seemed so formidable would turn out a mere
+pleasure-excursion. I did not mind getting wet myself; but as she did, I
+was glad to assure her that there was plenty of shelter in case of rain.
+Indeed, one might suppose that the whole road had been laid out for the
+express convenience of cat travellers; there were such hedges, trees,
+stiles, sheltered nooks, and sunny banks in every direction. Then as for
+strange dogs, was I not there to protect her? was I not a match for any
+dog? and did she not know that I would gladly shed the last drop of my
+blood in her cause, besides enjoying a fight on my own account? She
+sighed, but her sigh was a nearer approach to a purr than before, though
+her objections were far from being finished.
+
+She owned that she dreaded change. She had her own habits and her own
+duties; she had been used all her life to that same house, with its
+cellars and its pantries under her especial charge, and she was afraid
+that in a new place she might be idle and uncomfortable.
+
+This seemed to me a most unreasonable punctilio. I allowed that she
+might fairly prefer the country, but I could not for a moment admit that
+a town life need be idle. Did she suppose there were no mice in London?
+I could answer for the contrary. The servants were perpetually
+complaining not only of mice, but of rats; and only the day before I
+started, I had heard them declare that they could not do without a cat
+any longer. A most active life was open to her. The only danger was,
+that she might find too much to do, and that her love of neatness and
+comfort might be revolted by the dark crannies and gloomy cellars in
+which she had to seek her work. But as for being _useless_, that was
+indeed an idle fear any where for any body who wished to work.
+
+She listened attentively, and began to purr in a more decided manner.
+
+"Still," said she, "I am afraid they will miss me here."
+
+"No doubt," I replied; "but their loss can be remedied. A house like
+this can be kept in order by a very inferior cat to yourself; and after
+all, you are cherished here chiefly because it was Lily's wish. Peggy
+can easily find another kitten; and you know she has often said that
+white cats were not to her taste, and she should much prefer a tabby."
+
+"True, true," murmured Puss; and seeing that she was gradually
+softening, I continued to place every inducement before her in the
+strongest light. I represented the present unguarded state of the sugar,
+candles, preserves, &c., in a manner to touch the feelings of any
+domestic cat, and dwelt at some length on the improvement that must take
+place in the house under her vigilant superintendence. And I finally
+crowned my persuasions with the tenderest appeal to her affection for
+me, drawing a vivid picture of the difference to me and to my happiness
+that would result from her companionship. Pussy had for some time been
+wavering, and before I had finished my harangue she purred a full
+consent.
+
+I need not describe my delight at thus gaining the great object of my
+life. Some feelings should not be made public property. My happiness was
+not of a nature to be boisterous, but it was such as to satisfy Pussy
+that she had decided aright.
+
+At break of day we began our grand adventure, as we were anxious to lose
+no time; and we had been so well fed over-night, that we could defy
+hunger for the next twenty-four hours. When I had set out on my
+solitary journey, I had felt very easy about my accommodations and mode
+of travelling; but now that I had my less hardy companion, many cares
+crowded on my mind, and I pondered so profoundly over every arrangement,
+that Puss seemed the most cheerful and courageous of the two. Indeed,
+from the moment she agreed to my request, she generously gave to the
+winds all her former objections, and thought of nothing but helping me,
+and giving as little trouble as possible herself.
+
+We passed through our native village quietly. All curious observers had
+visited us the night before; and our friendship was so well known, that
+the sight of us together attracted no notice beyond a few kind words;
+but on emerging into the great world of the London road, we were obliged
+to hold a consultation upon our proceedings. Though our object was the
+same, our views of the best means of attaining it did not quite agree;
+Pussy's idea being to avoid fighting, mine to be prepared for it.
+Doubtless a combination of both principles was our true policy.
+
+We reconnoitred our route. Fields on each side were divided from the
+road by hedges, and there was a raised path between the hedge and the
+road. We decided that I should run along the open path, looking out for
+every danger, while Pussy, as much out of sight as possible, crept
+along the field on the other side of the hedge. Though this arrangement
+separated us, it was by far the safest; the thick green hedge hid the
+cat from observation, and there were plenty of gaps through which we
+could take an opportunity of peeping at each other, unmarked by any one
+else. Moreover, the fields had attractions for Pussy besides mere
+security; she could catch birds and field-mice, and thus secure a
+comfortable meal at any moment.
+
+In this manner we proceeded pleasantly for many miles; I trotting
+steadily onwards, and Puss creeping behind the hedge at her usual
+stealthy pace. When prudence permitted, we enlivened our journey by
+various agreeable diversions. Sometimes on coming to a paling or a wall,
+Puss jumped up with her usual activity, and ran along the top.
+Occasionally we made a halt, while she climbed a pleasant tree, and I
+reposed on the grass under its shade. Or she would rest on a sunny bank,
+while I amused myself by watching any passing carriages and horses in
+the road. Once or twice we left the beaten path in search of water, but
+we were careful not to wander far out of our way.
+
+In going through one village, we observed some trellis-work on the gable
+end of a house, affording facilities of ascent quite irresistible to a
+cat of spirit. Puss was on the perpendicular wall in an instant,
+climbing hand over hand, or rather paw over paw, till she reached the
+roof. There she revelled in her favourite exaltation, and enjoyed
+herself thoroughly in darting over the slates, and making excursions up
+and down the chimney stacks. As there were several houses adjoining, she
+had the opportunity of a considerable promenade along the gutters, very
+satisfactory till she came to the end of the row; but there,
+unfortunately, she found no means of coming down again. There was no
+trellis; and a blank wall, without a single projection to afford a
+footing, was beyond even her dexterity. There was nothing to be done but
+to retrace her steps, I meanwhile running along the footpath, and
+looking up with some anxiety.
+
+But we were not obliged to go back very far. The middle house was an
+inn, with a sign-post before it, from which hung a picture of a red lion
+rampant,--an ugly beast, and far from royal. I thought I would have
+shaken him to pieces if he had been alive, but under present
+circumstances I was very glad to see him. Puss sprang from the roof to
+the cross-beam which supported him, and from thence easily scrambled
+down his post to the ground. Very glad I was to have her at my side
+again, and to make our way through the village unmolested.
+
+[Illustration: THE JOURNEY TO LONDON. Page 84]
+
+All these freaks had rather hindered us, as people cannot go out of
+their way for amusement without wasting more time than they reckon upon;
+and I now urged Puss to resist such temptations, and to keep up a steady
+walk on her side of the hedge. Not being able to climb myself, I had no
+sympathy with her great love of the art; and, in fact, I had sometimes
+considered her power of ascending heights, and finding footing in places
+inaccessible to me, as a fault in her character. But as I did not wish
+to be ill-natured and disagreeable, I indulged her taste, though
+believing it to be useless, if not dangerous, and often persuading her
+to keep to the beaten path in every thing.
+
+But I thought myself wiser than I was, and I had to learn by experience
+that every different nature and endowment may have its peculiar
+advantages. Before we were out of sight of that village, the very talent
+which I had despised was the means of saving Pussy's life.
+
+The hedgerow, which had hitherto been our safeguard and screen from
+impertinent observation, had come to an end; the fields were separated
+from the road only by an open ditch, and young trees enclosed in palings
+were planted at regular intervals along the path. We were trotting
+leisurely, thinking of no mischief, when at a turn in the road there
+suddenly darted out upon us a fierce and powerful mastiff. To leap the
+ditch and be at Pussy's side was the work of a moment both for him and
+for me, though with very different intentions; he to assail, I to defend
+her. The attack was so sudden, that Puss had not time to use her weapons
+to any purpose; she just managed to give one spirited claw at his nose
+with a loud hiss, and then sprang faster and higher than I had ever seen
+her spring before, and gained the top of the paling just in time to
+escape his seizure. If she had not been able to jump, she would have
+been a dead cat. Even then she was not quite out of his reach, and he
+flew after her; but I threw myself upon him while she bounded to the
+little tree, and climbed its branches till she gained a place of safety.
+
+Then the mastiff and I had a battle royal. The very recollection of it
+at this day does me good. We were all in the highest state of
+excitement. Puss in the tree, her back showing high above her ears, and
+her tail swelled to the size of a fox's brush, puffing and spitting at
+her enemy like a snake or a steam-engine; the mastiff running round the
+paling on his hind legs, banging up against it on every side, and
+barking and howling with rage; I, no less furious, howling and barking
+at him in return, and galloping round the tree as wildly as he did.
+Determined to try every thing, he turned to dash round the other way,
+and we came full upon each other. I need not describe the consequences.
+"Greek" may "meet Greek," and I leave the result to the learned; but if
+any body had ever doubted whether when dog meets dog, "then comes the
+tug of war," now was the time to convince themselves. We certainly did
+tug at each other most decidedly. Our strength and courage were so
+nearly equal, that for some time the victory was doubtful. Again and
+again each hero, bitten, scratched, and bruised, rolled in the dust, and
+rose up again shaking ears and coat, ready to rush upon his adversary
+with undiminished spirit. The final issue seemed to depend entirely upon
+the power of holding out longest. As I scorn to boast, I candidly
+confess that I was many times ready to ask for quarter and own myself
+beaten: indeed, if I had only been fighting on my own account, I must
+have yielded; but the goodness of my cause supported me, and in defence
+of my friend I performed exploits of valour that I did not know to be in
+my nature. At last I had the satisfaction to see my enemy fairly turn
+round, and with drooping head, and tail between his legs, sneak off to
+his own home in a very different state of mind and body from that in
+which he left it. I sent after him a bark of triumph that made the woods
+re-echo; but my best reward was in my Pussy's thanks and praises, and
+the happy consciousness of being her successful champion.
+
+I required a little rest after my exertions; but before long we were on
+the move again, and met with no further impediments till we arrived at
+our resting-place for the night. This was under the shelter of an empty
+barn, rather infested by rats, so that Puss found both food and lodging.
+Tastes differ: I was glad of a comfortable roof and a warm corner; but
+though Puss pressed me to partake of her provision, I preferred going
+without a meal for once in my life to sharing a rat.
+
+We were up and dressed time enough for the rising sun to meet us on our
+road. I have few more "incidents of travel" to recount; indeed, beyond a
+little difficulty in crossing a puddle or two without wetting my
+comrade's feet, or dirtying her white stockings, we arrived at the
+outskirts of London without hindrance.
+
+But I feared that it would not be so easy to creep unobserved through
+the busy streets, and I grew very uncomfortable when I found myself and
+my companion in the midst of the throng. I was anxious to conceal my
+fears from Puss, lest I should alarm her also; but her penetration saw
+through my forced cheerfulness, and obliged me to confess my
+apprehensions. True to her determination of making the best of every
+thing, she was more courageous than I. With her usual good sense, she
+pointed out to me that the greater the surrounding numbers, the better
+the chance of any individuals passing unnoticed; that it was the idle
+who hindered or molested others; and that this multitude of people,
+intent upon objects of their own, would have neither time nor
+inclination to annoy us.
+
+"I know by experience, my dear Captain," continued she, "that when I am
+properly occupied with my own rats, I have no temptation to interfere
+with my neighbour's mice. It is when I have been sitting too long
+purring in the sunshine with nothing to do, that I am in danger of being
+mischievous or troublesome."
+
+"True," I answered; "I can bear witness to that myself: and I am not
+afraid of the industrious people, if they noticed us, it would be
+kindly. But these are not _all_ busy,--some may be at leisure to worry
+us; and I scarcely know how we are to pass unobserved; I fear we are
+very remarkable. At home you know how much was said about us."
+
+"Yes, _at home_," she replied, with a significant curl of her whiskers,
+"but at home we stood alone; there was no one to compare us with. I
+fancy that many are thought great personages in their own little
+village, who would be quite unnoticed elsewhere. I hope that may be our
+case."
+
+"You _hope_!" exclaimed I, almost with a bark; for in spite of my fears,
+I by no means admired Pussy's modest style of consolation. Mortification
+got the better of prudence, and I felt that I would rather fight every
+day and all day long than not be thought worth fighting with.
+
+"I hope it for myself," she answered; "but I do not expect you to be of
+the same opinion. I am content to shun danger and avoid blame; but it is
+your nature to meet peril and to court praise."
+
+"You are rather inconsistent," interrupted I, somewhat nettled: "one of
+your objections to coming with me was, that you thought you could be of
+no use in London; and now you are wishing to be altogether unnoticed."
+
+"I do not see any contradiction," she replied; "one may be useful
+without being conspicuous. If I can fill my own little post quietly, so
+as to please you and my master, I am content that no one else should
+even know of my existence. My climbing exploits are only for my own
+pleasure, as you know. I have no ambition."
+
+"Such a life would not satisfy me at all," I answered.
+
+"So much the better," said Puss; "there would be few great things done
+in the world if no one were more energetic or daring than I. It is a
+capital thing that there should be such as you, able and willing to
+defend the weak, and to stand up for the right without fear of
+consequences. It is your proper part, and I am truly grateful to you for
+acting it so nobly as you did yesterday."
+
+This view of the matter soothed my feelings; and for the present, at any
+rate, I was glad that Pussy's retiring disposition should have its way.
+The more she crept through by-ways and slunk into corners, the better I
+was pleased, for I was too fond of her to wish to see her in danger for
+the sake of my own honour and glory.
+
+So with care and caution we went on our way, taking every means to avoid
+not only dogs and boys, but even older and wiser beings; and at last,
+under lamp-posts and door-posts, through kennels and gutters, now
+creeping along the ledge of a wall, now hiding under the shelter of a
+friendly porch, always watching each other at every step we took, we
+arrived at our own door.
+
+All necessity for caution being now happily at an end, I indulged myself
+in a bark loud enough to rouse the house, though too joyous to alarm it.
+Presently our good friend John appeared in the area, talking to himself
+while going about his work. We heard him say in a hesitating manner, "I
+could not help almost fancying that I heard my poor Captain's bark; but
+I know it is nothing but my folly, always thinking of him. He's been and
+got himself stolen by some of those London dog-stealers. _I_ shall never
+see him again, poor fellow."
+
+I barked again. John looked up, and there I stood, only too happy to be
+able to contradict him. Extraordinary, that knowing me as he did, he
+should have thought me capable of deserting my best friends and letting
+myself be enticed away by a dog-stealer! I hoped I had more sense than
+that.
+
+John said not another word, but rushed up stairs and threw the
+street-door wide open. In my rapture at meeting him I forgot all
+ceremony; and standing bolt upright on my hind-legs, with my fore-paws
+on his shoulders, I licked his face all over. But he was too glad to see
+me to take offence at my familiarity, and patted my head and returned my
+caresses with cordiality equal to my own.
+
+At first he did not see my little fellow-traveller, who, in her modest
+reluctance to be intrusive, held back during the rough greetings between
+John and me. But in proper time she felt it due to herself to come
+forward and assert her presence; so, setting her tail bolt upright like
+a standard, she began pacing softly backwards and forwards, purring
+affectionately, and rubbing herself against John's legs at every turn.
+
+"Well, Pussy," said John, as he stooped to stroke her head, "it would
+take a good many human creatures to surprise me as much as you two dumb
+animals have done. But come in. Come, Captain, my boy; come, little
+Puss."
+
+So saying, he ushered us across the hall to our master's study, and
+tapped at the door.
+
+"Come in," called our master.
+
+John opened the door, and stood there without speaking a word, while
+Puss and I walked forwards to our master's chair, she purring and I
+wagging my tail as usual, expecting him to say something civil, but not
+prepared for astonishment in our wise master. I thought we had left all
+that sort of thing behind with Peggy. But my master looked up and down,
+at John and us, us and John again, several times in silence. At last he
+said, "It is the most extraordinary thing I ever saw. How and when did
+they come?"
+
+"Not five minutes ago, sir," answered John; "both together, as you see;
+and to judge from their dusty look, they must have walked all the way."
+
+"No doubt," replied my master. "On what day did we miss the dog?"
+
+"Four days ago, sir, after I told you how he was moping. He must have
+found his way all alone to the Manor, and brought the other back with
+him. It beats every thing that ever _I_ heard."
+
+"He must, indeed. Wonderful!" said my master.
+
+"To be sure I did," thought I. "Where is the wonder?"
+
+But as we were very hungry, we left John and our master to express their
+surprise to each other, while we turned our steps towards the kitchen.
+Even there, before we got any dinner, we were doomed to encounter a
+sharp fire of exclamations from the servants; and really such incessant
+expressions of amazement began to be almost mortifying. Approbation is
+pleasant enough, but astonishment gives the idea that people had not
+thought one capable of even one's own little good deeds. However, we
+bore it all with good humour, and were soon caressed and fed to our
+complete satisfaction.
+
+The rest of our story may be told in a few words. Puss was soon
+domesticated on her London hearth, and pursuing her avocations with her
+customary skill and spirit. She was a universal favourite, though just
+at first she had to endure a little gossip about her history and
+appearance; some pronouncing her to be very pretty, others seeing
+nothing particular in her worth so much trouble. But in due time her
+reputation was firmly established as the prettiest cat and the best
+mouser in the neighbourhood.
+
+While she made herself useful in her department, I was not idle in mine;
+and I think I may safely say that no house could boast of a more
+faithful and vigilant guardian. It was difficult to determine which of
+us was most useful to our master; Puss in preserving his property from
+"rats and mice and such small deer," or I, in keeping off larger
+depredators. Our joint business was to take care of the house, and
+thorough care we took, and thoroughly were our services appreciated and
+rewarded. Welcome guests on kitchen hearthstone or on drawing-room rug,
+treated as pets by the servants, as friends by our master, and agreeable
+company by his acquaintances, no animals have ever passed a happier
+life. Lily has often been to see us; and next to the pleasure of being
+once more caressed by her own hand, was that of hearing our story told
+to her husband by her own lips, and our friendship mentioned with
+approbation to her little son.
+
+       *        *       *       *       *
+
+It may seem absurd to suppose that a human being can profit by the
+history of a dog; but I believe that no creature is too insignificant,
+and no event too trivial, to teach some lesson to those capable of
+learning it; and a moral to this little story may be found in the
+advantage of making the best of untoward circumstances, and of
+cultivating kindness and goodwill in place of prejudice and dislike. In
+short, to any, small or great, who have hitherto found or fancied their
+companions uncongenial, I would propose Puss and Captain as an example
+of a new and better method of
+
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+
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+
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+
+Their Beauties, Uses and Influences, embracing a general and popular
+account of the Vegetable World. By Mrs. R. LEE, Author of "The African
+Wanderers," etc., etc.
+
+"As full of interest as of beauty, and one of the most charming
+gift-books of the season."--_Art Journal_.
+
+"At once useful as a botanical work, and exquisite as the ornament of a
+boudoir table."--_Britannia_.
+
+Fred Markham in Russia;
+
+    Or, the Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar. By W.H.G.
+    KINGSTON, author of "Salt Water," etc. With Illustrations.
+    Fcap. 8vo. price _5s._ cloth, _5s. 6d._ gilt edges.
+
+Might not Right;
+
+    Or, Stories of the Discovery and Conquest of America. By the
+    author of "Our Eastern Empire," etc. Illustrated by J.
+    Gilbert. Royal 16mo. price _3s. 6d._ cloth; _4s. 6d._
+    coloured, gilt edges.
+
+Jack Frost and Betty Snow;
+
+    With other Tales for Wintry Nights and Rainy Days. Illustrated
+    by H. Weir. _2s. 6d._ cloth; _3s. 6d._ coloured, gilt edges.
+
+Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles, and Ditties.
+
+    Edited and Illustrated by C.H. BENNETT, Author of "Shadows."
+    With Ninety Engravings. Fcap. 4to. price _3s. 6d._ cloth;
+    _6s._ coloured.
+
+Maud Summers the Sightless:
+
+    A Narrative for the Young. Illustrated by Absolon. _3s. 6d._
+    cloth; _4s. 6d._ coloured, gilt edges.
+
+Clara Hope;
+
+    Or, the Blade and the Ear. By MISS MILNER. With Frontispiece
+    by Birket Foster. Fcap. 8vo. price _3s. 6d._ cloth; _4s. 6d._
+    cloth elegant, gilt edges.
+
+The Adventures and Experiences of Biddy Dorking and of the FAT FROG.
+
+    Edited by MRS. S.C. HALL. Illustrated by H. Weir. _2s. 6d._
+    cloth; _3s. 6d._ coloured, gilt edges.
+
+Home Pastime;
+
+    Or, The Child's Own Toy Maker. With designs on Cards, and a
+    book of instructions for making beautiful models of familiar
+    objects. Price _5s._ in a neat case.
+
+Historical Acting Charades;
+
+    Or, Amusements for Winter Evenings. By the Author of "Cat and
+    Dog," etc. New Edition. Fcap. 8vo. price _3s. 6d._ cloth;
+    _4s._ gilt edges.
+
+The Story of Jack and the Giants:
+
+    With thirty-five Illustrations by RICHARD DOYLE. Beautifully
+    printed. New and Cheaper Edition. Fcap. 4to. price _2s. 6d._
+    in fancy boards; _4s. 6d._ coloured, extra cloth, gilt edges.
+
+
+W.H.G. KINGSTON.
+
+Salt Water;
+
+    Or Neil D'Arcy's Sea Life and Adventures, (a Book for Boys.)
+    By W.H.G. KINGSTON, Esq., author of "Blue Jackets," "Peter the
+    Whaler," "Mark Seaworth," etc. With Eight Illustrations. Fcap.
+    8vo., price _5s._ cloth, _5s. 6d._ gilt edges.
+
+    "With the exception of Capt. Marryat, we know of no English
+    author who will compare with Mr. Kingston as a writer of
+    nautical adventure."--_Illustrated News_.
+
+Our Eastern Empire;
+
+    Or, Stories from the History of British India. By the author
+    of "The Martyr Land," "Sunlight through the Mist," etc. With
+    Illustrations. Royal 16mo. _3s. 6d._ cloth, _4s. 6d._ coloured
+    gilt edges.
+
+    "These stories are charming, and convey a general view of the
+    progress of our Empire in the East."--_Athenaeum_.
+
+Granny's Wonderful Chair;
+
+    And its Tales of Fairy Times. By FRANCES BROWNE. With
+    Illustrations by KENNY MEADOWS. _3s. 6d._ cloth, _4s. 6d._
+    coloured, gilt edges.
+
+    "They remind us of the delicious tales of the Brothers
+    Grimm."--_Athenaeum_.
+
+Julia Maitland;
+
+    Or, Pride goes before a Fall. By M. and E. KIRBY, authors of
+    "The Talking Bird," etc. Illustrated by JOHN ABSOLON. Small
+    4to.: price _2s. 6d._ cloth; _3s. 6d._ coloured, gilt edges.
+
+Laugh and Grow Wise;
+
+    By the Senior Owl of Ivy Hall. With Sixteen large coloured
+    Illustrations. 4to.; price _2s. 6d._
+
+Pictures from the Pyrenees;
+
+    Or, Agnes' and Kate's Travels. With numerous Illustrations.
+    Small 4to.; price _3s. 6d._ cloth; _4s. 6d._ coloured, gilt
+    edges.
+
+The Early Dawn;
+
+    Or, Stories to Think about. By a COUNTRY CLERGYMAN.
+    Illustrated by H. WEIR, etc. Small 4to.; price _2s. 6d._
+    cloth; _3s. 6d._ coloured, gilt edges.
+
+Gruffel Swillendrinken;
+
+    Or, The Reproof of the Brutes. By A. CROWQUILL, author of "The
+    Careless Chicken," "Funny Leaves," "Picture Fables," etc. with
+    Sixteen coloured plates. 4to.; price _2s. 6d._, or on linen
+    _3s. 6d._
+
+Harry Hawkins's H-Book;
+
+    Shewing how he learned to aspirate his H's. With a
+    Frontispiece. Royal 16mo.; price _6d._
+
+    "No family or school-room within, or indeed beyond, the sound
+    of Bow bells, should be without this merry manual."--_Art
+    Journal_.
+
+
+DAVID STOW, ESQ.
+
+Bible Emblems;
+
+    With Practical Hints to Sabbath School Teachers and Parents in
+    conducting Training Lessons. By DAVID STOW, Esq. Fcap. 8vo.;
+    _1s._ sewed, _1s. 6d._ cloth.
+
+
+MISS JEWSBURY.
+
+Angelo;
+
+    Or, the Pine Forest among the Alps. By GERALDINE E. JEWSBURY,
+    author of "The Adopted Child," etc. With Illustrations by JOHN
+    ABSOLON. Small 4to; price _2s. 6d._ cloth; _3s. 6d._ coloured,
+    gilt edges.
+
+    "A book that is sure to be read by a child with interest and
+    delight."--_Manchester Examiner_.
+
+The Martyr Land;
+
+    Or, Tales of the Vaudois. By the Author of "Our Eastern
+    Empire," etc. Frontispiece by J. GILBERT. Royal 16mo; price
+    _3s. 6d._ cloth.
+
+    "A narrative of one of the noblest struggles in Christian
+    history, and with this history Protestant youth cannot be made
+    too early acquainted."--_London Literary Review_.
+
+    "We must pronounce the authoress to be an exceedingly
+    successful writer of books for children. While practical
+    lessons run throughout, they are never obtruded."--_English
+    Churchman_.
+
+
+MRS. R. LEE'S LAST WORK.
+
+Sir Thomas;
+
+    Or, the Adventures of a Cornish Baronet in Western Africa. By
+    MRS. R. LEE, Author of "The African Wanderers," etc. With
+    Illustrations by J. GILBERT. Fcap. 8vo; _3s. 6d._ cloth; _4s.
+    6d._ coloured.
+
+    "The intimate knowledge of African customs possessed by MRS.
+    LEE, enables her to convey ample information in a most
+    pleasing form."--_Britannia_.
+
+
+ALFRED CROWQUILL.
+
+Tales of Magic and Meaning.
+
+    Written and Illustrated by ALFRED CROWQUILL, Author of "Funny
+    Leaves for the Younger Branches," "The Careless Chicken,"
+    "Picture Fables," etc. Small 4to.; price _3s. 6d._ cloth; _4s.
+    6d._ coloured.
+
+    "Cleverly written, abounding in frolic and pathos, and
+    inculcates so pure a moral, that we must pronounce him a very
+    fortunate little fellow, who catches these "Tales of Magic,"
+    as a windfall from "The Christmas Tree."--_Athenaeum_.
+
+
+M. AND E. KIRBY.
+
+The Talking Bird;
+
+    Or, the Little Girl who knew what was going to happen. By MARY
+    and ELIZABETH KIRBY, Authors of "The Discontented Children,"
+    etc. With Illustrations by H.K. BROWNE (PHIZ). Small 4to;
+    price _2s. 6d._ cloth; _3s. 6d._ coloured, gilt edges.
+
+    "With great good sense, and valuable moral teaching, much fun
+    and amusement if wisely intermixed."--_Britannia_.
+
+The Discontented Children;
+
+    And How they were Cured. By M. and E. KIRBY. With
+    Illustrations by H.K. BROWNE (PHIZ.). Small 4to.; price _2s.
+    6d._ cloth; _3s. 6d._ coloured, gilt edges.
+
+    "We know no better method of banishing 'discontent' from
+    school-room and nursery, than by introducing this wise and
+    clever story to their inmates."--_Art Journal_.
+
+
+PETER PARLEY.
+
+Faggots for the Fire Side;
+
+    Or, Tales of Fact and Fancy. By PETER PARLEY. With Twelve
+    Tinted Illustrations. Foolscap 8vo.; _4s. 6d._, cloth; _5s._
+    gilt edges.
+
+    CONTENTS.--The Boy Captive; or Jumping Rabbit's Story--The
+    White Owl--Tom Titmouse--The Wolf and Fox--Bob
+    Link--Autobiography of a Sparrow--The Children of the Sun: A
+    Tale of the Incas--The Soldier and Musician--The Rich Man and
+    His Son--The Avalanche--Flint and Steel--Songs of the Seasons,
+    etc.
+
+    "A new book by Peter Parley is a pleasant greeting for all
+    boys and girls, wherever the English language is spoken and
+    read. He has a happy method of conveying information, while
+    seeming to address himself to the imagination."--_The Critic_.
+
+Words by the Way Side;
+
+    Or, the Children and the Flowers. By EMILY AYTON. With
+    Illustrations by H. ANELAY. Small 4to.; price _3s. 6d._ cloth;
+    _4s. 6d._ colored gilt edges.
+
+    "Seldom have we opened a book designed for young people, which
+    has afforded us greater satisfaction--it has our most cordial
+    commendation."--_British Mother's Magazine_.
+
+    "The simple and quiet manner in which the beauties of nature
+    are gradually unfolded is so fascinating, and the manner in
+    which everything is associated with the Creator is so natural
+    and charming, that we strongly recommend the book."--_Bell's
+    Messenger_.
+
+Caw, Caw;
+
+    Or, the Chronicles of the Crows: a tale of Spring Time.
+    Illustrated by J.B. QUARTO; price _2s._ plain; _2s. 6d._
+    coloured.
+
+The Remarkable History of the House that Jack Built.
+
+    Splendidly Illustrated and magnificently Illuminated by THE
+    SON OF A GENIUS. Price _2s. in fancy cover_.
+
+    "Magnificent in suggestion, and most comical in
+    expression!"--_Athenaeum_.
+
+
+A BOOK FOR EVERY CHILD.
+
+The Favourite Picture Book;
+
+   A Gallery of Delights, designed for the Amusement and
+   Instruction of the Young. With several Hundred Illustrations by
+   Eminent Artists Royal 4to., price _3s. 6d._, bound in an
+   Elegant Cover; _7s. 6d._ coloured or mounted on cloth; _10s.
+   6d._ mounted and coloured.
+
+_Fourth Thousand, enlarged in size, with Illustrations, 3s. 6d. cloth._
+
+Letters from Sarawak,
+
+    Addressed to a Child; embracing an Account of the Manners,
+    Customs, and Religion of the Inhabitants of Borneo, with
+    Incidents of Missionary Life among the Natives. By Mrs.
+    M'DOUGALL.
+
+    "All is new, interesting, and admirably told."--_Church and
+    State Gazette_.
+
+       *        *       *       *       *
+
+A Peep at the Pixies;
+
+    Or, Legends of the West. By Mrs. BRAY. Illustrated by H.K.
+    BROWNE (Phiz), _3s. 6d._ cloth; _4s. 6d._ coloured, gilt
+    edges.
+
+    "A peep at the actual Pixies of Devonshire, faithfully
+    described by Mrs. Bray, is a treat. Her knowledge of the
+    locality, her affection for her subject, her exquisite feeling
+    for nature, and her real delight in fairy lore, have given a
+    freshness to the little volume we did not expect. The notes at
+    the end contain matter of interest for all who feel a desire
+    to know the origin of such tales and legends."--_Art Journal_.
+
+Ocean and her Rulers;
+
+    A Narrative of the Nations who have from the earliest ages
+    held dominion over the Sea. By ALFRED ELWES. With Frontispiece
+    Foolscap 8vo., _5s._ cloth, _5s. 6d._ gilt edges.
+
+    "The volume is replete with valuable and interesting
+    information; and we cordially recommend it as a useful
+    auxiliary in the school-room, and entertaining companion in
+    the library."--_Morning Post_.
+
+The Day of a Baby Boy;
+
+    A Story for a Young Child. By E. BERGER. With Illustrations by
+    JOHN ABSOLON. Price _2s. 6d._ cloth, plain; _3s. 6d._
+    coloured, gilt edges.
+
+    "A sweet little book for the nursery."--_Christian Times_.
+
+Cat and Dog;
+
+    Or, Memoirs of Puss and the Captain. By the Author of "The
+    Doll and her Friends," "Historical Acting Charades," etc.
+    Illustrated by H. WEIR. 4th Edition. Price _2s. 6d._ cloth,
+    plain; _3s. 6d._ coloured, gilt edges.
+
+    "The author of this amusing little tale is, evidently, a keen
+    observer of nature. The illustrations are well executed; and
+    the moral, which points the tale, is conveyed in the most
+    attractive form."--_Britannia_.
+
+The Doll and Her Friends;
+
+    Or, Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina. With Illustrations by Phiz.
+    3rd Edition, small 4to., cloth, _2s. 6d._ plain; _3s. 6d._
+    coloured.
+
+
+ALFRED CROWQUILL'S COMICAL BOOKS.
+
+_Uniform in size with_ "The Struwwelpeter."
+
+Picture Fables.
+
+    Written and Illustrated with Sixteen large coloured Plates by
+    ALFRED CROWQUILL. Price _2s. 6d._, or mounted on linen _3s.
+    6d._
+
+The Careless Chicken;
+
+    By the BARON KRAKEMSIDES; With Sixteen large coloured Plates,
+    by ALFRED CROWQUILL. 4to., _2s. 6d._, or on linen _3s. 6d._
+
+Funny Leaves for the Younger Branches.
+
+    By the BARON KRAKEMSIDES, of Burstenoudelafen Castle.
+    Illustrated by ALFRED CROWQUILL. 4to., coloured plates, _2s.
+    6d._, or on linen _3s. 6d._
+
+       *        *       *       *       *
+
+Scripture Histories for Little Children.
+
+    By the author of "Mamma's Bible Stories," etc. With Sixteen
+    Illustrations, by JOHN GILBERT. _3s._ plain; _4s. 6d._
+    coloured.
+
+    CONTENTS.--The History of Joseph--History of Moses--History of
+    our Saviour--The Miracles of Christ.
+
+The Family Bible Newly Opened;
+
+    With Uncle Goodwin's account of it. By JEFFERYS TAYLOR, author
+    of "A Glance at the Globe," "The Young Islanders," etc.
+    Frontispiece by JOHN GILBERT. Fcap. 8vo., _3s. 6d._ cloth.
+
+    "A very good account of the Sacred Writings, adapted to the
+    tastes, feelings, and intelligence of young
+    people."--_Educational Times_.
+
+    "Parents will also find it a great aid in the religious
+    teaching of their families."--_Edinburgh Witness_.
+
+Clarissa Donnelly;
+
+    Or, The History of an Adopted Child. By GERALDINE E. JEWSBURY,
+    with an Illustration by JOHN ABSOLON. Foolscap 8vo., price
+    _3s. 6d._ cloth.
+
+    "With wonderful power, only to be matched by as admirable a
+    simplicity, Miss Jewsbury has narrated the history of a child.
+    For nobility of purpose, for simple, nervous writing, and for
+    artistic construction, it is one of the most valuable works of
+    the day."--_Lady's Companion_.
+
+Kate and Rosalind;
+
+    Or, Early Experiences. By the author of "Quicksands on Foreign
+    Shores," etc. With an Illustration by J. GILBERT. Fcap. 8vo.,
+    price _3s. 6d._ cloth.
+
+    "A book of unusual merit. The story is exceedingly well told,
+    and the characters are drawn with a freedom and boldness
+    seldom met with."--_Church of England Quarterly_.
+
+    "We have not room to exemplify the skill with which Puseyism
+    is tracked and detected. The Irish scenes are of an excellence
+    that has not been surpassed since the best days of Miss
+    Edgeworth."--_Fraser's Magazine_.
+
+Good in Everything;
+
+    Or, The Early History of Gilbert Harland. By MRS. BARWELL,
+    Author of "Little Lessons for Little Learners," etc.
+    Illustrated by JOHN GILBERT. Royal 16mo., cl. _3s. 6d._ plain;
+    _4s. 6d._, cold., gilt edges.
+
+    "The moral of this exquisite little tale will do more good
+    than a thousand set tasks abounding with dry and uninteresting
+    truisms."--_Bell's Messenger_.
+
+Stories of Julian and his Playfellows.
+
+    Written by HIS MAMMA. With Illustrations by JOHN ABSOLON.
+    Small 4to., _2s. 6d._, plain; _3s. 6d._, coloured, gilt edges.
+
+Tales from Catland;
+
+    Written for Little Kittens by an OLD TABBY. With Four
+    Illustrations by H. WEIR. Third Edit. Small 4to., _2s. 6d._
+    plain; _3s. 6d._ coloured.
+
+The Wonders of Home, in Eleven Stories.
+
+    By GRANDFATHER GREY. Second Edition. With Illustrations. Royal
+    16mo., price _3s. 6d._ cloth; _4s. 6d._ coloured.
+
+    CONTENTS.--1. The Story of a Cup of Tea.--2. A Lump of
+    Coal.--3. Some Hot Water.--4. A Piece of Sugar.--5. The Milk
+    Jug.--6. A Pin.--7. Jenny's Sash.--8. Harry's Jacket.--9. A
+    Tumbler.--10. A Knife.--11. This Book.
+
+    "The idea is excellent, and its execution equally commendable.
+    The subjects are well selected, and are very happily told in a
+    light yet sensible manner."--_Weekly News_.
+
+
+WORKS BY MRS R. LEE.
+
+Anecdotes of the Habits and Instincts of Animals.
+
+    By Mrs. R. LEE (formerly Mrs. Bowdich), with Illustrations by
+    H. WEIR. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo., _5s._ cloth.
+
+Anecdotes of the Habits and Instincts of Birds, REPTILES, and FISHES.
+
+    Illustrated by H. WEIR. Fcap. 8vo., _5s._ cl.
+
+    "Amusing, instructive, and ably written."--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+    "Mrs. Lee's authorities--to name only one, Professor
+    Owen--are, for the most part, first rate."--_Athenaeum_.
+
+Playing at Settlers; or, the Faggot House.
+
+    With Illustrations by GILBERT. _2s. 6d._ cloth; _3s. 6d._
+    coloured.
+
+    "A pleasant story, drawn from the reminiscences of the
+    author's own child-life."--_The Press_.
+
+Twelve Stories of the Sayings and Doings of ANIMALS.
+
+    With Four Illustrations by J.W. ARCHER. 2nd Edition, small
+    4to., cloth _2s. 6d._ plain; _3s. 6d._ coloured, gilt edges.
+
+    "It is just such books as this that educate the imagination of
+    children, and enlist their sympathies for the brute
+    creation."--_Nonconformist_.
+
+Adventures in Australia;
+
+    Or, the Wanderings of Captain Spencer in the Bush and the
+    Wilds; containing accurate descriptions of the Habits of the
+    Natives, and the Natural Productions and Features of the
+    Country. Second Edition. With Illustrations by J.S. PROUT.
+    Fcap. 8vo., _5s._ cloth.
+
+    "The work cannot fail to achieve an extensive
+    popularity."--_Art Journal_.
+
+    "This volume should find a place in every school library; and
+    it will, we are sure, be a very welcome and useful
+    prize."--_Educational Times_.
+
+Familiar Natural History.
+
+    With Forty-two Illustrations from Drawings by HARRISON WEIR,
+    Small 4to., cloth _3s. 6d._ plain; _6s._ coloured gilt edges.
+
+The African Wanderers;
+
+    Or, the Adventures of Carlos and Antonio; with Descriptions of
+    the Manners and Customs of the Western Tribes, and the Natural
+    Productions of the Country. 3rd Edit. With Engravings. Fcap.
+    8vo., _5s._ cl.
+
+    "For fascinating adventure, and rapid succession of incident,
+    the volume is equal to any relation of travel we ever read. It
+    exhibits marked ability as well as extensive knowledge, and
+    deserves perusal from all ages."--_Britannia_.
+
+    "In strongly recommending this admirable work to the attention
+    of young readers, we feel that we are rendering a real service
+    to the cause of African civilization."--_Patriot_.
+
+
+WORKS BY W.H.C. KINGSTON.
+
+Manco, the Peruvian Chief;
+
+    Or, the Adventures of an Englishman in the Country of the
+    Incas. With Illustrations by CARL SCHMOLZE. Fcap. 8vo., _5s._
+    cloth.
+
+    "A capital book; the story being one of much interest, and
+    presenting a good account of the history and institutions, the
+    customs and manners, of the country."--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+Mark Seaworth;
+
+    A Tale of the Indian Ocean. Illustrated by J. ABSOLON. Second
+    Edition. Fcap. 8vo. _5s._ cloth.
+
+    "No more interesting, nor more safe book, can be put into the
+    hands of youth; and to boys especially, 'Mark Seaworth' will
+    be a treasure of delight."--_Art Journal_.
+
+Peter the Whaler;
+
+    His early Life and Adventures in the Arctic Regions. Second
+    Edition. With Illustrations. Fcap. 8vo., _5s._ cloth.
+
+    "A better present for a boy of an active turn of mind could
+    not be found. The tone of the book is manly, healthful, and
+    vigorous."--_Weekly News_.
+
+    "A book which the old may, but the young must, read when they
+    have once begun it."--_Athenaeum_.
+
+Blue Jackets;
+
+    Or, Chips of the Old Block. A Narrative of the Gallant
+    Exploits of British Seamen, and of the principal Events in the
+    Naval Service during the Reign of her Most Gracious Majesty
+    Queen Victoria. Post 8vo.; price _7s._ _6d._ cloth.
+
+    "A more acceptable testimonial than this to the valour and
+    enterprise of the British Navy, has not issued from the press
+    for many years."--_The Critic_.
+
+       *        *       *       *       *
+
+Rhymes of Royalty.
+
+    The History of England in Verse, from the Norman Conquest to
+    the reign of QUEEN VICTORIA; with an Appendix, comprising a
+    summary of the leading events in each reign. Fcap. 8vo., with
+    an Elegant Frontispiece. Price _2s. 6d._ cloth.
+
+Tales of School Life.
+
+    By AGNES LOUDON, Author of "Tales for Young People." With Four
+    beautiful Illustrations by JOHN ABSOLON. Second Edition. Royal
+    16mo., price _2s. 6d._ plain; _3s. 6d._ coloured.
+
+    "These reminiscences of school days will be recognized as
+    truthful pictures of every-day occurrence. The style is
+    colloquial and pleasant, and therefore well suited to those
+    for whose perusal it is intended."--_Athenaeum_.
+
+Blades and Flowers.
+
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