Thy Servant, A Dog
| dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.contributor.author | Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:35:51Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:35:51Z |
| dc.date.created | 1930 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3303 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3303 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/3303 |
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| dc.title | Thy Servant, A Dog |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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‘Thy Servant a Dog’
PLEASE may I come in? I am Boots. I am son of Kildonan Brogue — Champion Reserve — V.H.C.— very fine dog; and no-dash-parlour-tricks, Master says, except I can sit-up, and put paws over nose. It is called ‘Making Beseech.’ Look! I do it out of own head. Not for telling... This is Flat-in-Town. I live here with Own God. I tell:
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There is walk-in-Park-on-lead. There is off-lead-when-we-come-to-the-grass. There is ‘nother dog, like me, off-lead. I say: ‘Name?’ He says: ‘Slippers.’ He says: ‘Name?’ I say: ‘Boots.’ He says: ‘I am fine dog. I have Own God called Miss.’ I say: ‘I am very-fine dog. I have Own God called Master.’ There is walk-round-on-toes. There is Scrap. There is Proper Whacking. Master says ‘Sorry! Awfully sorry! All my fault.’ Slippers’s Miss says: ‘Sorry! My fault too.’ Master says: ‘So glad it is both our faults. Nice little dog, Slippers.’ Slippers’s Miss says ‘Do you really think so?’ Then I made ‘Beseech.’ Slippers’s Miss says: ‘Darling little dog . . .
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