"I down't know," replied the parson. "He was part of the creation that
St. Paul says is growning and waiting for the redemption of the body
from pain and disease and death. It used to be said that man ownly is
naturally and necessarily immortal, but that is rubbish, built up on a
pantheistic idea of Platow. If God continues the life of man beyond this
world, I see no reason why He should not continue that of a dawg which
has shared man's fight here below. There are some such good dawgs, don't
you know, moral, kind, faithful dawgs!"
"Is it not the poor Indian who thinks his faithful dog shall bear him
company in another world?" asked Miss Carmichael.
"Yes, it is Low; but really, in the great Sanscrit epic of the Bharatan
war, King Yoodistheer is represented as refusing immortality, unless the
god Indra will let him take his dawg to heaven along with him."
"And left his wife behind, did he not? He did not even hold her
something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse."
"Ow, now, I think Draupadee died before him. Still, it is a strange fact
though that some people do love animals better than human beings.
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