I did not. In the long and tear-stained annals of the family dogs but one greyhound was in my memory, the saintly and beautiful Gazelle, own niece to "Master McGrath," as was recited with bated breath to new governesses and other of the unenlightened, coupled with large statements as to her uncomputable value had not her tail in youth been shut into a stable door and given a double angle like a bayonet.
Rickeen was occupied, to some extent, in felling a young ash tree. He swung in half a score of blows that made it shiver, and presently came to the expected pause.
"Faith thim was the dogs—! My brother Tom was butler here the same time. B'leeve me 'twas himself was souple! He'd run home any minute in the day, two miles, and ye wouldn't hardly feel him gone."
This remarkable1 accomplishment2 on the part of the butler was allowed to sink in, as it deserved.
"He had a tarrier, and one day going through the Wood of Annagh himself and the tarrier wakened a hare, and the two o' thim was hunting her through and fro, and he cursing the full of a house on the tarrier. He shtud then on the big rock that's in it, and he let a whistle on his two fingers. The two greyhounds was sthretched within at the kitchen fire up at the Big House, and sorra word of lie I'm tellin', but Poor Fellow put an ear on him, and the two of them legged it out of the kitchen and away with them to the wood, and they never stopped nor stayed till they found Tom, and themselves and the tarrier killed the hare."
The big rock and the Big House were severed3 by an Irish mile of tree trunks and briars, but criticism is the last thing required from a listener, and I hope I played my part.
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Rickeen was again possessed4 by a spasm5 of industry: the chips flew out, the tall young ash cracked, and sank into the arms of its neighbours. There was a singular simplicity6 about the forestry7 of the establishment. When the bitter cry of the cook went forth8 for wood wherewith to cook the impending9 meal, Rickeen prayed that the divil might roast and baste10 all the women in Ireland, and cut down a convenient young tree. By this means the plantations11 were lightly thinned at the ends nearest the house, and as a general thing the cook gave notice every three weeks, which prevented any unwholesome stagnation12.
"But as for dogs," continued Rickeen, a little later, as he snicked off the greeny-grey branches, "the grandest dog ever was in this counthry was Mullowny's. Ye couldn't know what kind of a breed was in him, but ye'd have to like him, he was that spotted13."
Here a long-drawn yell came forth from the yard, resolving itself gradually into a statement to Rickeen that the Misthress wanted her keys, and himself was the last one she seen them with.
Rickeen put down his hatchet14 in fateful silence. His dog, couched in a brake where the young bracken stems curled like bishops15' croziers round her crafty16 snout, raised one yellow eyebrow17 out of what was apparently18 deep sleep, arose, and followed him with her wonted gravity. Her cold manner was the next thing to good breeding; in spite of a family tree exclusively composed of crosses, in spite of a coat suggestive of a badger20 skin that has been used as a door mat, there was that in her pale eyes and in the set smile at the corners of her mouth that discouraged familiarity, and induced other dogs to feign21 a sudden interest in their own affairs as she approached. To follow Rickeen she gnawed22 ropes, and swam lakes, and ate her way through doors, and Rickeen never to my knowledge addressed her, except with the command to drive in the cows. In her next incarnation she will probably be the ideal colonist's wife.
I remained sitting on a stump23 in the silence, and thought of my first love, Bran. Through the tree stems I could see a grassy24 hill sloping to the lake side, where, at the age of nine, I grovelled25 one morning among the cowslips and mopped my soaking tears with my holland waggoner, and wished for death, because Bran had been drowned. Bran was a cur, half silky and gracious Gordon setter, half woolly vulgarian of the Irish cottage breed, and to us, his comrades, a hero, an object of passionate26 faith, and, as such, the victim of many well-meant but excruciating honours. He wore, with docile27 consciousness of his absurdity28, ornamental29 harness of strangling complications, and with it drew at a foot pace a grocer's box, mounted on wheels, while we walked before and after with fixed30 bayonets and all the gravity befitting a guard of honour operating in shrubberies teeming31 with banditti. It was not till an attempt was made to put the new bull dog into double harness with him that Bran showed symptoms of resentment32, and the battle that then raged in the tangle33 of the shoulder straps34 and traces placed him, if possible, higher in our respect. The matter was patched up with the bull dog, who, though instant in quarrel, was not without good feeling, and next morning, at an early hour, I saw his frightful35 face protruding36 from under the bedclothes of my brother's bed, framed in a poke37 bonnet38 of sheet, while two long tails, languidly waving in welcome, hung down over the valance like bell-ropes, and witnessed to the presence of Bran and of the young deerhound, Kilfane, hidden in the deepest heart of the bed.
Perhaps Sunday was the day that Bran was most satiating to us. To go to church on the top of the family omnibus was at any time the summit of ambition; with Bran speeding easily in front, or slackening for a hurried exchange of ferocities with cabin acquaintances, the five miles (invariably driven in the teeth of a north-westerly wind) were all too short. Those inside, whose turn it would be to sit on top coming home, yearned40 with crooked41 necks through the side windows, and stimulated42 by glimpses of the hero, were enabled to struggle successfully with the hideous43 tendency of childhood to be sea-sick in covered vehicles. During church time Bran was immured44 in the lock-up at the police station, and many a wriggling45 half-hour's endurance of the sermon was gilded46 by expectancy47 of the moment when the sorrowful sighing of the prisoner would turn to ardent48 sniffing49 under the door of the lockup, and the hand of the sergeant50 would restore to us "life's greatest possibility."
One summer night, at about this time, as I lay in my bed, the spirits of prophecy and of poesy came upon me hand in hand, quite inexplicably51. Bran was in his usual health, and, as I afterwards found, was at that very hour engaged in stealing mutton hash from the back hall: but it was decreed that I should compose an ode fatefully commemorating52 his violent death.
"Oh, Bran, thou wert gentle and sweet," I began, without an effort, while Mattel's Valse swung and crashed its way up through two ceilings from the drawing-room,
But now thou art past and gone,
Like a wave on the ocean so fleet,
And the deed of death was done.
Even here inspiration did not flag.
'Tis no use to wail53 or to weep.
For oh, alas54 and alack!
Thou'st gone to that eternal sleep,
From which none can bring thee back.
The magnificence of the close was almost stupefying to the author; even the second line of the verse had seemed full of a rending55 passion. I sank to sleep, aware that I had taken my place in literature.
A year afterwards came the miserable56 tears among the cowslips, the first taste of the bitter core of sentiment, and the discovery that the prophetic ode did not express the position.
Bran occupies the whole foreground of the history of pets, but there were many of a lesser57 sort. There was even another elegy58, beginning:
Stranger, with reverence59 draw near,
A Linnet lies below.
But birds were not our foible.
Rabbits followed each other in bewildering succession, and travelled to their doom60 by the same track. We fed them with milk and water out of eggspoons, with daisies, and with clover, but the morning always came when the foundling lay stiff in its hay, its black eyes glazed61, and the limp daisies untouched beside it. One notable exception is recorded, a young rabbit brought in with a broken leg, who out of pure contrariety and improbability lived for a year. It became precocious62 beyond belief, and sat all day observing life from the arm of its proprietor63. At night it slept, or affected64 to sleep, in a box in her room, biding65 its time till the candle was put out. Under cover of darkness it would then stealthily come forth and would buck66 with precision from the floor on to the face of the sleeper67, repeating the feat68 as often as repulsed69, until a burrow70 in some corner of the bed was granted. (It is not out of place here to mention that its nails were cut with extreme care and regularity71.) Its diet presented no difficulty, save in the matter of restriction72. It partook of the family meals as they came: porridge, marmalade, bread and butter, meat; uncooked green vegetables were not so much as mentioned in its presence. It even, horrible to confess, frequently ate rabbit-pie, and cracked and crunched73 the bones of its relatives with cannibal glee. On these scandalous foods it throve, but remained dwarfish74 and uncanny. It had moods of suspicion and brooding, when it sat in the chimney of an empty room. Once, under the protection, no doubt, of the evil spirits with whom it was in league, it leaped from a window sill forty feet above the ground, alighted with a flop75, and greeted those who rushed to pick up the corpse77 with a cold stare of inquiry78 as to what the excitement was about. It met its death by presuming in the open field upon the long-suffering of the dogs whom it terrorised in the house.
Outside the inner circle of pets, and within the outer circle of the donkeys whom we partly loved, partly scorned, and daily martyrised, kids held a certain position of their own. They are not to be commended, being skittish79, peevish80, tactless and strong, but they were not without attraction. One of them, black and white, with oblique81 barley-sugar eyes, showed much inclination82 towards the profession of house dog, and learned many essentials of that trade; the doors that were worth waiting at, the perils83 and rich prizes of the kitchen passages, the moment to intrude84, the moment to fly. An incident of its career can best be told in the words of a certain Bridget, a notable member of the long dynasty of Bridgets that passed processionally through the establishment en route for America.
"The Misthress was below in the hall and she heard one above on the top landin', walkin' as sthrong as a man. 'Bridget!' says she," (the voice of command was given with great elegance85 and hauteur), "and what was in it but the young goat, and it commenced walkin' down the stairs. 'Come here, Bridget!' says the Misthress, and sure of course the goat said nothing, but goin' on always from step to step. 'Arrah musha! The divil go from ye,' says the Misthress, 'why don't ye spake? What sort of hoppin' is it ye have up there?'" (The elegance of the imitation here yielded to the narrator's sense of what was fitting.) "Faith, the goat stood then, like it'd be afraid. 'The Lord save us, it's the fairies!' says the Misthress, an' there wasn't one in the house but she called, and what did they get in it but the goat, an' it having a stocking half ate!"
Not long afterwards (next day probably) the kid was sent back on an outside car to its native place, a region of bog86 and rock and scrub, where its lamentations for the schoolroom fire had ample scope. It was escorted to its Siberia by a large party from the schoolroom, filled with curiosity to see how it would be received in its family circle. The boy who was left to hold the horse became also impelled87 to see the meeting, with the result that the horse and car were found a little later on their backs in a bog ditch, which conclusion is not to this hour known to the authorities.
It was in the winter that the Reign88 of Terror of the Monkeys began. The first of them, large and grey, wearing the name of Lizzie, and a red flannel89 coat, arrived in December, and it was humanely90 arranged that she should live close to the kitchen fire on the flour bin39. It was also enacted91 that she was to be chained to the wall "until she got to know people a little."
There are Northern stories, Eastern ones, too, I believe, of houses in which evil spirits having once gained entrance, remained in immutable92 possession. Thus it was with us. In a short time Lizzie got to know every one very thoroughly93. She bit each visitor indiscriminately, and having analysed the samples, she arranged a sliding scale of likes and dislikes, on the negative principle. That is to say, she would tolerate A till B arrived, when she bit A. On C's appearance she bit both A and B, and so on up to Z. The master of the house was Z. (Herein she showed her infernal cunning.) Z was never bitten. The kitchenmaid, in whose control were the dainties that Lizzie's soul loved, was Y, i.e., she was only bitten on the arrival of the master. Lizzie's bad life had the sole merit of brevity. One of her customs was to strike a match, and having burnt the hair on her grimy, nervous little arm, to eat the frizzled remains94. (Thus invalidating the vaunt that man is the only animal that cooks.) Having on several occasions nearly set the house on fire, matches were forbidden to her, but one fortunate day a new boxful somehow fell into her possession, and, varying her wonted practice, she ate off the heads of most of the matches. Therewith her spirit passed; but only temporarily. In less than a year she was with us again. This time in the guise95 of a small brown monkey, that went by the name of Jack96. A clear proof of obsession97 by the spirit of Lizzie was afforded in the fact that precisely98 the same sliding scale of hatred99 was observed, culminating as before in the master of the house. Jack was in some particulars less repellent than his predecessor100. He was smaller, and was given to fits, which gave a hope that his life might not long be spared. By this time the flour-bin from long camping would have supplied the germs of enteric to an entire army corps76. (I hasten to say that, being in Ireland, it was never used as a flour-bin having been thus temporarily styled as a concession101 to convention during the brief reign of an English cook who had long before fled to her native land.) Between the flour-bin and the wall Jack's fits usually took place, and it was the wont19 of the tender-hearted kitchenmaid (known to this day among her fellows as "Mary-the-Monkey." The suffix102 "the Monkey" being a distinguishing mark; as "Philippe-le-Bel," "Robert-the-Lion") to unchain him after one of these seizures103 and to sit before the fire with him on her lap. No experience seemed to teach her that his first act on recovery was to bite her suddenly and then escape. The alarm was spread in precisely the same manner on each successive occasion. First a shrill104 and piercing scream from "Mary-the-Monkey," usually coupled with an appeal to her God. Then an answering yell from the next victim in the pantry. Then a shouting, and an earthquake slamming of doors through the house as its occupants one and all sped to safety. Finally the voice of the master assuring the invisible household that all was well, and that the monkey would never bite any one if they did not show that they were afraid of him.
Jack died in a fit, and was mourned only by the master and the faithful kitchenmaid. Yet had he and his fellow had any desire for social success it would have been easy for them to have achieved it in a family so inured105 to pets as ours.
But monkeys are worse than tactless. They understand their own hideousness106 and unpopularity, yet will not make a step towards amiability107. A little leaning to the pathetic would have made us adore them, but they prefer to remain malevolent108, remote, uttering coarse, mysterious grunts109 and screeches110, out of hearts full of cold devilry. It is in keeping with their vulgarity that they should thrust their way into an assemblage of pets; an insult even to the kid and the rabbit, an outrage111 to the memory of Bran.
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