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Circa Date
1887
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I always liked children & dogs
His eyes alone redeemed him from utter meanness
He knew what wolves were – another evidence of Indian origin. Once in camp we hear them howling on a large island
Storm
The music detached low soothing cooing swirls beneath the trees caressing the rubus & huckleberry bushes. Drops of rain drumming on the broad leaves of panax, flute tones from spikey towers of ice & whispering rills mingled with roar of storm & flood torrents passing on either side sinking & rising “The [clash/dash] hard by & murmur all round”
The Art of God bringing sweet music out of the shattered spikes of ice & crevasses of glaciers
Our struggle for life was just the same only he was not able to satisfy himself with one view of the difficulty – his tempestuous agonies hard to witness
“Danger deviseth shifts, wit waits on fear” Shak. [Shakespeare]
Careening in circles over the ice
Made our way through the huge black night
The furious ebullition of his fears
The exuberance of joy corresponding
[□] He plainly showed that he dreaded losing his life as if like a philosopher her knew its value. Gifted with faculties of hope & fear. Capable of fear
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Character
Dumb patient endurance of weariness & weather
A small horizontal philosopher
Always up to anything wild & adventurous
Moved with reckless daring, jumped as if all one muscle like skippers of [cheese/chase]
Body & brain both small rough & steady. Narrow mental horizon
A wise self-contained. He was now awake & lighted from within
Undemonstrative as if always had lived under a cloud
[□]( Rich in eyes but sad simpleton otherwise
Savages & children know animals best & give them sympathy of real moral kind, but civilization seems always to kill sympathy
Had an air of having suffered sore discipline many experiences & made stupid both to himself & others by slow steady thinking. No tricks or accomplishments
Scoldings & caresses were the same to him would subside in stoical complacency
# How truly sublime the love of ds [dogs] is to man their God & strength of felling but I was not his master & why he insisted on following me I don’t know. The trees on the cliffs bending from the sea blast
Nothing so quickly brings sympathy as fear of death
Seemingly lazy yet fond of adventures
That estimable philanthropist [the] d [dog]
The moral qualities of dog above instinct
Intellectual action seen only in slyly watching operations about the camp.
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