Barks and Purrs eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 69 pages of information about Barks and Purrs.

Barks and Purrs eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 69 pages of information about Barks and Purrs.

Yes, no other dog.  Why?

THE LITTLE DOG

There’s a strange odor.

TOBY-DOG

The Cat, doubtless.

THE LITTLE DOG

The Cat?  What’s a Cat?  I’ve never seen one.  Do they leave you in the room all alone?

TOBY-DOG

It happens so now and then.

THE LITTLE DOG

And you don’t bark? I cry as soon as I’m left alone.  I’m bored, afraid, feel sick, and chew up the cushions.

TOBY-DOG

And then you’re whipped.

THE LITTLE DOG, (insulted)

I’m—­what did you say?  You’re losing your senses, I imagine. (Suddenly amiable again.) That would be a pity.  You have lovely eyes.

TOBY-DOG

Haven’t I?  They show well, don’t they?  They’re large, and then they stick out.  She says I have eyes like a lobster’s, and sometimes She says “his beautiful seal’s eyes, his frog-like eyes of gold.”

THE LITTLE DOG

Who’s She?

TOBY-DOG, (simple)

She.

THE LITTLE DOG

I don’t understand all you say, but I find you so very sympathetic! 
What are you doing this evening?

TOBY-DOG

Why ...  I dine.

THE LITTLE DOG

Naturally!  I wanted to know whether they receive here this evening, or do you go out?

TOBY-DOG

No, I’ve been out already.

THE LITTLE DOG

Driving?

TOBY-DOG

Walking—­of course.

THE LITTLE DOG

Why, of course?  I hardly stir except in a carriage.  Show me the underside of your paws.  Horrors!  One would say ’twas the stone they sharpen knives on!  Look at mine.  Satin on top, velvet underneath.

TOBY-DOG

I’d like to see you in the country, on the cobble-stones.

THE LITTLE DOG

I’ve been there, Sir.  I was in the country last summer and there weren’t any cobble-stones.

TOBY-DOG

Then it wasn’t the country.  You don’t know what country means.

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