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Circa Date
1887
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101
More & more troubled
Sent up his piercing cries of peril terror & agony
Sticks [constance] – sharp clear insufferable pain
I am sick & capable of fears; I am full of fears, subject to fears I ama dog human & therefore naturally born to fears
Whined in such plain pathetic way
Dull & unpromising & yet I know none to match with him. Will try to show what manner of dog he was who had done so much for me, [almost] marks an □ [ ] in my life
Wolves, jackals, foxes & the whole hairy dog tribe
Eyes deep wells, his mind like a boxed waterwheel grinding in the dark
Cold & lonely as an Artic Winter
□ He was [man] no longer only one dog but a 1000 dogs & more for in no small measure he gave me & stood like an apostle for the whole animal kingdom sympathy with all their wants griefs fears
What is called the “vague stare” of wild animals, not vague only unknown to us. His gaze shady as Natures self
The most tremendous necessity [ever] man or dog had to face crushed to screaming agony
102
In his gaze steady & tranquil as Nature herself
Easy to understand day unto day uttering speech in such storm
All my life far back as I can remember I have been familiar with dogs making friends of them speaking to them & giving them like most children credit for being wise far beyond what is accorded by grown men. Dash wonderful that would find what we had in dark rooms. Bony
The most sociable of animals
The dog is the one unfading link between man & beast, birds too whales
Didn’t appreciate a pat had a genius for doing odd unexpected things but always in a solemn way that [ ] invincible solemnity left [him] never, wide awake even in sleep
Perhaps there is truth in transmigration
# He enlarged my life extended its boundaries I always befriended animals & have said many a good word for the least loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal & told them to go in peace, alligators, tigers, wolves
Don’t know whether in his prime or before or after it He seemed neither old or young like a hill or stone
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