New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-09
JOHN RCSKIN'S DOG WISIE.


From Praeterita.
And my dog WHSLE, was he dead too Il eecms
wholly wonderful TO me at this moment that he should
ever have died. lie was white spL, exactly lNt
came from young Austrian officer, who had got
tired OF himthe Count Thun, who fell aftcr"dld al
George and took him to Lido to give him little sea
path. George was holding him by his iogepaws up
right among the 1tc crisp breakers MSe 1 sntGn
lallyland like Frederch the Great at MollTitz; no
was lost on Lido for three days ana nights avng oX
they could 10 cach him; but they told me he ran
like hare and eaped like hSi ,. 49, having mazda
up his mind that even my service was preferable 10
liberty on lido he took the deep water IN broad Day
him from distance rowed after him, took him. tired
donna della salute having been propltous to bis re
pentant striving with the sea-
tionate dog. though of extremely self wed and self
possessed Character was then living on me norm i1
side Of ST. Ma PSce and ne base ssd Of 70 X p the the
greater part of tho day obscvant OF The manners ana
over the St. Gothard, but found HIM entirely nnap
pallcd by any of the work OF Devils on blg or llc
lie saw nothing 10 trouble himself about in prccpices
II they were vide enough to put his paws on ard me
dog who had fed madly from crisp sea wave 'IoItcd
beside the fa Of Reuss Just as If If had been another
white dog u little bigger, created out OF foam
Reaching Paris he considered IL incumbent upon MIN
to appear Unconscious OF the cAistcnce OF ma cIy OF
were not 81. Marks place but hsI asleep one cven-
a bark in the street which sounded Venetian, spiang
through the window In expectation of finding himself
ON the usual ledge and fell fifteen feet 10 the pave
mput As | ran down, met him rushing up the hotel
stairs Che had gathered himself from the stones IN an
Instant bleeding and gddy: be staggered OuLi and
round two or three dimes and fell helpless - Tn,
floor / don't know IL young ladies' dogs ialnt
really when they hurt lie, wise. did not ialnt
nor even moan, but he could not stir. except In
cramped starts and shlvers. ! sent for what vecrt-
nary help was within reach, and heard that the dog
might recover II he could DC kept quiet for day
two I'm dog hos pital. But my omnibus was NJ the
door for the London train. In tho very turn and
niche OF time heard that Macdonald nj st. Martin >
was I'm the hotel and would take charge OF wise for
the time necessary. The poor, little, specchosS luck
less wisfuly. gazing doggie tondcriy put IN a
pretty basket going to be taken where thinks the
beating heart, looks at his master 10 read What he
can in the sad face make out nothing is hurried
out of tho MEMORABLE door downstairs, finds himself
more nearly dead next day and among strangers
Two miles away from Mcurice's along the boulevard
II was1
lie takes and heeps counsel with himself on that
natter drinks and eats what he is given gratefully
swallows his medicine obedcnily stretches his limbs
saw, between the boulevard and him silently, In
the early dawn OF the fourth or nth day. think, he
capcd II, and along two miles OF Partisan boulevard
came back 10 Meurice's
do not believe there ever more wonderful
piece OF instinct certified. For MacdOn aid received
him in establishments and Wislc trusted Macdonald to
bring him 10 his lost master again. The Schehalcn
chief brought him to Denmark iill, where OF course,
Wisc did not know whether something still worse
might not befall him, or whether he would be allowed
to stay. But he was allowed and became bright
part Of my mothers days. as VOL IS Of mne, iiom
1852 to 1859. or perhaps longer But must go back
now to l65d5O