TAILIEUCHUNG - “MURPHY” A MESSAGE TO DOG-LOVERS

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. | 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 1 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 2pedigree 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 millbuildings 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 3middle-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 .

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