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'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers By: Ernest Gambier-Parry (1853-1936) |
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"MURPHY" [Illustration: His dog. by Him.] "MURPHY"
A MESSAGE TO DOG LOVERS BY
MAJOR GAMBIER PARRY With two drawings by the author NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
1913 COPYRIGHT 1913 BY
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
PRINTED IN AMERICA TO
THAT VAST HOST IN THE HUMAN FAMILY
THAT LOVES DOGS
AND THAT INCLUDES WITHIN ITS RANKS
THE GOOD, THE GREAT, AND THE INSIGNIFICANT
THESE PAGES
ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED
BY ONE OF
THE COMMON RANK AND FILE ILLUSTRATIONS "HIS DOG" Frontispiece
"ALAS!" Facing p. 192
"MURPHY"
A MESSAGE TO DOG LOVERS I
Yes. He was born in the first week of June, in the year 1906. Quite a
short while ago, as you see that is, as we men count time but long
enough, just as a child's life is occasionally long enough, to affect the
lives ay, more, the characters of some who claimed to be his betters on
this present earth, with certainties in some dim and distant heaven that
might or might not have a corner here or there for dogs. His parentage was that of a royal house in purity of strain and length of
pedigree, and he first saw the light in the yard of a mill upon the
river, where the old wheel had groaned for generations or dripped in
silence, according as the water rose or fell, and corn came in to be
ground. There were others like him in appearance in the yard; on the eyot on
which the mill buildings stood, gorgeous in many coloured tiles; round
the dwelling house, or in a large wired enclosure close by. His master,
the Over Lord, bred dogs of his kind for the nonce, not necessarily for
profit, but because, with a great heart for dogs, he chose to, claiming
indeed the proud boast that not a single dog of his class walked these
Islands that was not of his strain and claiming that, moreover, truly. At one period there might have been counted, in and around this
mill yard, no less than thirty eight dogs, young and middle aged, and all
more or less closely related. But while this number was much above the
average, the congestion that arose thereby was chargeable with the single
unhappy episode in Murphy's life, concerning which he often spoke to me
in after days, and the effect of which he carried to the end. Of this,
however, more later. Life in the midst of such a company Irishmen all necessarily meant a
more or less rough and tumble existence, where the strongest had the best
of it, and the weaker ones were knocked out, when the Master was not
there to interfere... Continue reading book >>
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