The Blind Dog, Fellow-Feeling Summary

The Blind Dog

The dog spends its first 3 years hanging around the market. Then one day it approaches the blind man, the blind man gives it food, and befriends it. The blind man is defended by the dog from a teenager that abuses him. Then the old woman who helps the blind man dies. The blind man gets another merchant to give him a rope, and to attach the dog to it. The blind man can now move around because the dog guides him. He gets more money begging, and can entertain passerbys that watch him and the dog interacting. The blind man drives the dog mercilessly. One day, some of the merchants are upset, and one of them cuts the rope with a pair of scissors and frees the dog. For a couple of weeks the...