74 Idle Days in Patagonia. 



man among his fellow-men. I doubt if any other 

 retriever, in such circumstances and handicapped by 

 such an infirmity, could have retrieved that splendid 

 flamingo; but with this excellence there was the 

 innate capacity to go wrong, a sudden reversion to 

 the irresponsible wild dog the devilry, to keep to 

 human terms, that sent him into exile and made 

 him at the last so interesting and pathetic a figure. 



