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Updated: June 7, 2025
Here we were, wandering in the streets of Paris; the night was dark and the gas jets, which flickered in the wind, lit the alleys but dimly. At each step we slipped on the ice-covered pavement. Vitalis held me by the hand, and Capi followed at our heels.
This was a big, good-natured looking man with a red face; he wore a tall white collar and a Prince Albert coat. He did not reply to my question, but turning to the guests, he put his two fingers in his mouth and gave such a shrill whistle that it frightened Capi. "Say, you all," he cried, "what about a little music; the musicians have arrived." "Oh, music! music!" came the chorus.
The dogs settled themselves to go to sleep, Capi with his nose in the cinders. I thought that I would follow their example. I do not know how long I slept; when I awoke the snow had stopped falling. I looked outside. It was very deep; if we ventured out it would come above our knees. What time was it? I could not ask Vitalis. His big silver watch, by which Capi had told the hour, had been sold.
"Oh, very well, then," said he, recovering himself; "so that it shall not happen again, you may take Capi out with you in the future." I showed my fist to the two boys. I could not speak to them, but they saw by my manner that if they dared have anything more to do with my dog, they would have me to reckon with. I was willing to fight them both to protect Capi.
The next day, after tying Capi to the caravan, where he was to be on guard, I hurried off to the race-course with Mattia. We began to play as soon as we arrived and kept it up until night. My fingers ached as though they had been pricked with a thousand pins and poor Mattia had blown his cornet so long that he could scarcely breathe. It was past midnight.
But the next morning I had to give Capi his lesson, I took him in my arms and while I gently kissed him on his cold nose, I explained to him what he had to do; poor doggy! how he looked at me, how he listened! I then put his leash in Allen's hand and he followed the two boys obediently, but with a forlorn air.
His energy was all gone between his potations and the constant terror that paralysed him. On that morning he had been as usual to the Ponte Quattro Capi and had returned with the means of sleep in his pocket.
"Should say I did," answered another boy; "he walked behind the men who carried the stretcher. He kept his head down, and now and again he jumped up on the body, and when they made him get down he moaned and howled something terrible." Poor Capi! how many times, as an actor, had he not followed Zerbino's funeral. Even the most serious children had been obliged to laugh at his display of grief.
I was very proud of Capi's talents. I put him through all his tricks and as usual he scored a great success. "Why, that dog is worth a fortune," exclaimed my father. I was very pleased at this praise and assured him that Capi could learn anything that one wished to teach him.
And I wanted him very much to like Lise. The cold welcome that the aunt had given us did not encourage me to return to the house, so at a little before six o'clock, Mattia, Capi, and I went to the entrance of the mine to wait for Alexix.
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