I told Brownlee that that was good news, anyway, even if it did upset
his law of scared dogs; but he smiled a superior smile.
“Disprove nothing!” he said. “It proves my law. Didn't I say in the
first place that the time a dog would be gone was in inverse ratio
to the number of guns? Well, the inverse ratio to no guns is infinite
time--that is how long Fluff will be gone; that is how long he will run.
Why, that dog will never stop running while there is any dog left in
him. He can't help it--it is the law of scared dogs.”
“Do you mean to say,” I asked him, “that that dog will run on and on
forever?”
“Exactly!” said Brownlee proudly. “As long as there is a particle of him
left he will keep on running. That is the law.”
Maybe Brownlee was right. I don't know. But what I would like to know is
the name of some one who would like a dog that looks like Fluff, and is
his size, and that howls like him and that answers to his name. A dog of
that kind returned to Murchison's house a long time before infinity, and
I would like to get rid of him. Brownlee says it isn't Fluff; that his
law couldn't be wrong, and that this is merely a dog that resembles
Fluff. Maybe Brownlee is right, but I would like to know some one that
wants a dog with a richly melodious voice.
THE END
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of That Pup, by Ellis Parker Butler
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