Dick Pentreath Author:Katharine Tynan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: McClurg Subjects: Irish fiction Fiction / General Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the Gene... more »ral Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III SANCHO'S FLOGGING There was no need to leave Sancho behind when Dick went to the Stone Farm, and that was something that was additionally pleasant to the dog's master, whose attachment to his dumb friend was very great. Dick would expatiate boyishly on Sancho's fascinations to a circle that liked him too well to grow tired of listening to him. "I've known a great many dogs," he would say, letting Sancho's delightful ears drop through his fingers, "and they were invariably gentlemen and good fellows when they weren't ladies. But I've never known one to curl himself into your love and consideration like this one. I assure you, I never find Sancho at my heels without a sense of personal compliment." More people than Dick had felt the same thing about Sancho, and had been sensibly flattered if the dog showed them a little more of friendship than the grave, cheerful, and playful benignity he had for all the world. When Dick began to sort out things for his winter shoot at the Stone Farm -- he had never run to a valet, and Mrs. Maidment was the keeper of his wardrobe, and confessed that life would not be the same if she had not to put away the master's clothes after him -- he would turn a reassuring smile on Sancho, whose eyes asked in a dumb anguish of apprehension if he were to be left behind this time. "You're in the right box, old chap," Dick would say, heaping his dress-shirts in a snowy drift on the floor. "That excellent girl Susan, good housekeeper as she is, woul...« less