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If scientists must treat a man as a dog, it need not be always as a mad dog. They might grant him, like Toots, a little of the dog's loyalty and the dog's reward. In this book Dickens is really trying to write a new kind of book, and the enterprise is almost as chivalrous as a cavalry charge. He is making a romantic attempt to be realistic. That is almost the definition of David Copperfield.
'And then, said the Captain, in his hoarse whisper, and tapping Mr Toots on the chest with the back of his hand, and falling from him with a look of infinite admiration, 'what follers? That there pretty creetur, as delicately brought up as a foreign bird, goes away upon the roaring main with Wal'r on a woyage to China! 'Lord, Captain Gills! said Mr Toots. 'Ay! nodded the Captain.
Whenever a regiment arrives or leaves, whenever a train stirs yes, by Heaven, every time a locomotive toots or a mule brays or a chicken has the pip somebody informs the Johnnies, and every detail is known to them within a few hours!" The Special Messenger seated herself on the edge of the camp table. "I suppose they are very disagreeable to you about it at headquarters."
But Mr Feeder's great possession was a large green jar of snuff, which Mr Toots had brought down as a present, at the close of the last vacation; and for which he had paid a high price, having been the genuine property of the Prince Regent.
The grave face before him under the lifted veil was troubled. 'George Skinner. She breathed it softly. 'I'd make him a good wife, by God's gra-ace if I could. But it's no use. I'm not responsible. But he'll not take "No" for an answer. I used to call him "Toots." He's of no consequence, yo' see. 'That's in Dickens, said Conroy, quite quickly. 'I haven't thought of Toots for years.
'To Mrs Feeder, my love! said Mr Toots, in a subdued tone of private discussion: "'whom God hath joined," you know, "let no man" don't you know?
If sound is to be trusted rather than light, recourse is had to a bell-buoy which tolls mournfully as the waves toss it about above the danger spot, or to a whistling buoy which toots unceasingly a locomotive whistle, with air compressed by the action of the waves.
'Oh' upon my word and honour, cried Mr Toots, whose tender heart was moved by the Captain's unexpected distress, 'this is a most wretched sort of affair this world is! Somebody's always dying, or going and doing something uncomfortable in it. I'm sure I never should have looked forward so much, to coming into my property, if I had known this. I never saw such a world.
Amiel Toots exclaimed, in thick accents, as though his fright had become such as to seriously interfere with the working of his vocal cords. Max waited no longer. He knew that the boat, drifting down with the current, was now exactly opposite to him.
This was Mr Toots, who after renewing, some weeks ago, the acquaintance he had had the happiness of forming with Skettles Junior, on the night when he burst the Blimberian bonds and soared into freedom with his ring on, called regularly every other day, and left a perfect pack of cards at the hall-door; so many indeed, that the ceremony was quite a deal on the part of Mr Toots, and a hand at whist on the part of the servant.
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