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    Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman
    Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman
    Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman
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    Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman - Ian Hay

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      Title: Scally

      The Story of a Perfect Gentleman

      Author: Ian Hay

      Release Date: April 4, 2009 [eBook #28495]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SCALLY***

      E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Emmy,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      By Ian Hay

      ——————

      HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

      Boston and New York

      THE LEADING OBJECT PROVED TO BE A SMALL, WET, SHIVERING, WHIMPERING PUPPY

      SCALLY

      THE STORY OF A PERFECT

      GENTLEMAN

      By IAN HAY

      BOSTON AND NEW YORK

      HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

      MDCCCCXV

      COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

      COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY IAN HAY BEITH

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      Published November 1915

      SCALLY

      THE STORY OF A PERFECT GENTLEMAN

      I

      Bettersea trem? Right, miss! My wife, who has been married long enough to feel deeply gratified at being mistaken for a maiden lady, smiled seraphically at the conductor, and allowed herself to be hoisted up the steps of the majestic vehicle provided by a paternal county council to convey passengers—at a loss to the ratepayers, I understand—from the Embankment to Battersea.

      Presently we ground our way round a curve and began to cross Westminster Bridge. The conductor, whose innate cockney bonhomie his high official position had failed to eradicate, presented himself before us and collected our fares.

      What part of Bettersea did you require, sir? he asked of me.

      I coughed and answered evasively:—

      Oh, about the middle.

      We haven't been there before, added my wife, quite gratuitously.

      The conductor smiled indulgently and punched our tickets.

      I'll tell you when to get down, he said, and left us.

      For some months we had been considering the question of buying a dog, and a good deal of our spare time—or perhaps I should say of my spare time, for a woman's time is naturally all her own—had been pleasantly occupied in discussing the matter. Having at length committed ourselves to the purchase of the animal, we proceeded to consider such details as breed, sex, and age.

      My wife vacillated between a bloodhound, because bloodhounds are so aristocratic in appearance, and a Pekinese, because they are dernier cri. We like to be dernier cri even in Much Moreham. Her younger sister, Eileen, who spends a good deal of time with us, having no parents of her own, suggested an Old English sheep dog, explaining that it would be company for my wife when I was away from home. I coldly recommended a mastiff.

      Our son John, aged three, on being consulted, expressed a preference for twelve tigers in a box, and was not again invited to participate in the debate.

      Finally we decided on an Aberdeen terrier, of an age and sex to be settled by circumstances, and I was instructed to communicate with a gentleman in the North who advertised in our morning paper that Aberdeen terriers were his specialty. In due course we received a reply. The advertiser recommended two animals—namely, Celtic Chief, aged four months, and Scotia's Pride, aged one year. Pedigrees were inclosed, each about as complicated as the family tree of the House of Hapsburg; and the favor of an early reply was requested, as both dogs were being hotly bid for by an anonymous client in Constantinople.

      The price of Celtic Chief was twenty guineas; that of Scotia's Pride, for reasons heavily underlined in the pedigree, was twenty-seven. The advertiser, who resided in Aberdeen, added that these prices did not cover cost of

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