A young dog, inexperienced, sadly lacking in even primary education, ambles and frisks along thefootpath of Fulham Road, near the mysterious gates of a Marist convent. He is a large puppy, on theway to be a dog of much dignity, but at present he has little to recommend him but that gawkyelegance, and that bounding gratitude for the gift of life, which distinguish the normal puppy. He isan ignorant fool. He might have entered the convent of nuns and had a fine time, but instead hesteps off the pavement into the road, the ...
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A young dog, inexperienced, sadly lacking in even primary education, ambles and frisks along thefootpath of Fulham Road, near the mysterious gates of a Marist convent. He is a large puppy, on theway to be a dog of much dignity, but at present he has little to recommend him but that gawkyelegance, and that bounding gratitude for the gift of life, which distinguish the normal puppy. He isan ignorant fool. He might have entered the convent of nuns and had a fine time, but instead hesteps off the pavement into the road, the road being a vast and interesting continent imperfectlyexplored. His confidence in his nose, in his agility, and in the goodness of God is touching, absolutely painful to witness. He glances casually at a huge, towering vermilion construction that iswhizzing towards him on four wheels, preceded by a glint of brass and a wisp of steam; and thenwith disdain he ignores it as less important than a mere speck of odorous matter in the mud. Thenext instant he is lying inert in the mud. His confidence in the goodness of God had been misplaced.Since the beginning of time God had ordained him a victim.An impressive thing happens. The motor-bus reluctantly slackens and stops. Not the differentialbrake, nor the foot-brake, has arrested the motor-bus, but the invisible brake of public opinion, acting by administrative transmission. There is not a policeman in sight. Theoretically, the motor-'bus is free to whiz onward in its flight to the paradise of Shoreditch, but in practice it is paralysed bydread. A man in brass buttons and a stylish cap leaps down from it, and the blackened demon whosits on its neck also leaps down from it, and they move gingerly towards the puppy. A little while agothe motor-bus might have overturned a human cyclist or so, and proceeded nonchalant on its way.But now even a puppy requires a post-mortem: such is the force of public opinion aroused. Twopolicemen appear in the distance."A street accident" is now in being, and a crowd gathers with calm joy and stares, passive anddetermined. The puppy offers no sign whatever; just lies in the road. Then a boy, destined probablyto a great future by reason of his singular faculty of initiative, goes to the puppy and carries him bythe scruff of the neck, to the shelter of the gutter. Relinquished by the boy, the lithe puppy falls intoan easy horizontal attitude, and seems bent upon repose. The boy lifts the puppy's head to examineit, and the head drops back wearily. The puppy is dead. No cry, no blood, no disfigurement! Evenno perceptible jolt of the wheel as it climbed over the obstacle of the puppy's body! A wonderfullyclean and perfect accident! The increasing crowd stares with beatific placidity. People emerge impatiently from the bowels ofthe throbbing motor-bus and slip down from its back, and either join the crowd or vanish. The twopolicemen and the crew of the motor-bus have now met in parley. The conductor and the driverhave an air at once nervous and resigned; their gestures are quick and vivacious. The policemen, onthe other hand, indicate by their slow and huge movements that eternity is theirs. And they couldnot be more sure of the conductor and the driver if they had them manacled and leashed. Theconductor and the driver admit the absolute dominion of the elephantine policemen; they admit thatbefore the simple will of the policemen inconvenience, lost minutes, shortened leisure, dockedwages, count as less than naught.
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