The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-30
DIR. D0RRITT'S FATE.

Miss Alice II you don't want me for any
thing Mrs. Garnett SAYS ] may go and SCI
Dr norritt You need me-
NO: you can go; but don't bring Dr
Dorritt back with you. no matter no"
badly he wants 70 come
Or Dorritt is pig, she explained tC
her guests-"a pet pig. the property. u
rather tho friond. Of Fonny. The boy
doics on him. and the pig returns the dot
inc with interest. You should see him
follow Founy about ike dog when we
are M home lie can do several smart
littlo tricks, too, but he will obey nobody
but founy. He was named In honor Of q
stubby little doctor in picture book.
Fonuy traced a resemblance TO this gen.
tlelnan in the pigs face aud figure, and
christcned him accordingly. He is GER
tainly the most unattractiyc of his race,
but is perfect in Fonny's eyes. lDtellectu-
ally he ranks high for pic. Before we
came to this place Fonny wept for days
because no was told that he could not
bring DR. Dorritt Father relented at
last. and said the pig might come il
FOuny would find a home for him in the
country. Accordingly DR.. Dorritt boards
nj the Wildly McGeary's. a mile or more
directly west"
ionnv went away light of heart,
"vhist!ing foolish tune. and thinking
OF the joys in store for him. 1t would be
no cyaegerotion to say that DR.. Dorritt
was his bosom friend No other creature
looked up to him ~ 10 a superior being
DR. Doriitt did And where is the human
being, male or female on whom this does
not have it's effect: 1t is something to be
worshped even by pig
DR. porritt was one OF the chief figures
n the bows mental kingdom today. 1t
pleased i'onny T. assume that the doctor
,bly sustained his title. When he felt
Ike sitting at the feet of wisdom Lie pro
3ogndcd the deepest and most unanswer
able questions to him, and the doctor al
"a, threw light upon them.
On. Doritt has deepness in him, the
JOY would say, when others ventured TO
ioubt the pigs mental ability. When
.ogcther Fonny and the doctor spent
nuch time in t:is kind Of dialogue.
DR.. Dorritt, what 10 you think Of the
sxpostulation of science as elevated 10y
he discumbency OF prehensile astronomy
and disgorged by the integrity and to
.aliiv of the theological univeIsei'
Although this was a question which no
man could either understand or answer,
the learned doctor cleared 1T right up.
Ills small eyes would almost close and
hi, nOstrils 20 upward in snorts of dis.
lain nj the ignorance which was unable
TO cope with 50 simple a problem His
opinion then came forth in a succession of
decisive grunts These Ionny translated
To-. l.. -, If 4l.n
ton, whatever it was. Indeed if the
boys opinion OF the pig wisdom was cor
rect. he was able TO throw light on the
darkest problems which affect the race Of
men. lie was equally learned in law,
logic, theology, philosophy and all the
physical sciences but in law he was abso-
lutcly without peer
Fouuy's inteTogatories were generally
made up from the big words he heard in
judge Gainott's home OF office and III
church thrown together without regard
to coheronce or relevancy. As in the case
of all who assume learned attitudes, this
triiiing obscurity Of style was no draw
back To the doctor in eXpodnding his
views thereon
Sometimes question would take TINS
form: What IS Your opinion of a philos
ophcr who rode q cucumber 10 the horse
lair ana clmo home without his supper
The giants which followed this query
would be echoed by Fonny in this form:
A fool fool fool quite agree with
you. doctor"
Fomv was an unconscious satirist The
loctor and his wisdom satirized the hu-
nan family terriiicGlly; but the boy took
,,,,f,.rs.s stt,s "a, ,p.f baf 10th
questions and answers were correct and |
serious. he always came away from u
ong talk with the pig greatly stimulated |
n mind and fairly bullying with learning. |
The doctor was also his oracle on the
mall affairs of every day life. viii it
ONE cut SO and 30, or will it happen
husf' he wOuld Isl, of his four footed
nend and the reply was always to lis
ntire satisfaction. In fact it could not
,e otherwise when he acted as interpre
or In this way all the boys perplexi
les were made plain. And who shall say
hat hi oracle was less wise than that OF
many presumably learned men, who 20
omotimes for guidance in temporal affairs
. advisers OF as questionable ability as
Dr. DOrritty
When Fonny was deprived Of the com
or,ing society OF his pet and mentor, and
ceded counsel lie caked him up in
Imagination and propounded his questions
nth much the same result. Have we
OF been told thousand times that beauty
) in the eye OF the beholder? That we
sc III others what we have within our
elves2 Truly the imagination has power
, make its own world. IL can even
ndow an animal OF the grossest tastes
I'd coarsest instincts with the attributes
/ Il superior being fonny was not the
rst OF his race to idealize u pig. nor Will
e be the last
Today he had many things to lay before
is wise friend So he sauntered along
nd ina gined himself accompanied by the
octor, and they exchanged opinions very
'cely. Mark you, when be was with the
Dctor, either iii fancy " reality, lie was
D longer the humble serving boy. ready J
, fetch and carry and Y1n q, the call of
Mother. A grave and reverend scignior, i
Roman statesman. OF 14ighty monarch
as he, and the pig, though so learned
I'd iniallible. was somewhat beneath him
rank Il
This assumption Of greatness made him ,
.tlemeiy happy and in no way dispieaSed S