Salt Lake Herald | 1900-05-03 | Page 10 | Scott and Dogs

SCOTT AND DOGS DOES novelists Love For Canines Shown in His Works Magazine Dogs play a really important role iole in Scotts works and no two are alike aUke but hut all are worthy of the love with which I their artist evidently regarded them His lines to the dog who tor lOr three months guarded the remains of his master who had perished on Helvellyn are not indeed Inde d i equal to poem on the sam sani samI I subject but one portion of them seems worthy of quotation How long Ion thou think that his silence was slumber When the wind waved his garment how bow oft thou start How many long days and anti long weeks didat thou number Ere he faded before thee the friend of thy heart And oh was it meet that no requiem read oer o er him No mother to weep and no friend to de do deplore deplore hid lihu And thou then little guardian ardlan alone stretched before him the pilgrim from life should depart Here speaks at least a lover loer of dogs if he does doeR not speak at his best but it is in inthe Inthe Inthe the novels that Scotts most wonderful dog characters are arf found We Ve shall all remember Wasp Va P the tiie little terrier in Guy Wasp who as Bertram is crossing the lonely waste l leads ads him to the spot where Dinmont is struggling with the robbers and who acted glori gIori gloriously gloriously during the skirmish annoying the heels of ot the enemy and repeatedly effect effecting effecting ing a moments diversion in his masters favor tavor Dell Deil but your dogs weel wed en 05 entered entered wT WI 1 the th vermin now sir is Dan ian Dandies Dandies dies delighted exclamation when Charlie Hope is approached the famous Peppers and Mustards that race of 8 whose who e name rf f Dandie Dandle was Scotts creation and which will be con connected connected connected through all time with his work appear tumultuously on the scene Wasp too keeps reappearing throughout the story Some of ot us can hardly read the account of Bertrams dejection in the prison on broken in upon by b the tho sound of a n dogs feet pattering up the stairs in great haste to find his master in tribulation or orin orin in success neither mattered to Wasp without a thrill