Memories . MEMORIES smell did not exist. I would I could hear again those long rubber-lipped snufflings of recognition underneath the door, with which each morning he would regale and reassure a spirit that grew with age more and more nervous and delicate about this matter of propinquity ! For he was a dog of fixed ideas, things stamped on his mind were indelible; as, for example, his duty toward cats, for whom he had really a perverse affection, which had led to that first disastrous moment of his life, when he was brought up, poor bewildered puppy, from a brief excursion to the kitchen, with
Memories . MEMORIES smell did not exist. I would I could hear again those long rubber-lipped snufflings of recognition underneath the door, with which each morning he would regale and reassure a spirit that grew with age more and more nervous and delicate about this matter of propinquity ! For he was a dog of fixed ideas, things stamped on his mind were indelible; as, for example, his duty toward cats, for whom he had really a perverse affection, which had led to that first disastrous moment of his life, when he was brought up, poor bewildered puppy, from a brief excursion to the kitchen, with one eye closed and his cheek torn ! He bore to his grave that jagged scratch across the eye. It was in dread of a repetition of this tragedy that he was instructed at the word Cats to rush forward with a special tow-row-rowing, which he i6. yy^i/yuU^ J CiA-^^yh^fU\. ^^-^iX^t^ fUv>x, ^*^^^ M EMORIES never used toward any other form of the end he cherished a hope that he wouldreach the cat, hut never did; and if he had,we knew he would only have stood and waggedhis tail ; hut I well remember once, when hereturned, important, from some such sally, howdreadfully my companion startled a cat-lovingfriend by murmuring in her most honeyedvoice: Well, my darling, have you beenkilling pussies in the garden? His eye and nose were impeccable in theirsense of form ; indeed, he was very English inthat matter: people must be just so; thingssmell properly; and affairs go on in theone right way. He could tolerate neithercreatures in ragged clothes, nor children ontheir hands and knees, nor postmen, because,with their bags, they swelled-up on one side, 17
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