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Updated: July 23, 2025
Had not Victoriana been a modest doggie, the amount of praise and attention she received from the four boys would have turned her head; and the boys themselves had no reason to complain of the kindly congratulations they received from the infantry company.
"You must be very good to Victoriana," he said to his sister; "you must be very good to each other, Marie, for you will both have much to bear." "We will, we will," said Marie; "but you, Charles, you will be with us; at any rate not far from us." "I may be near you, and yet not with you; or I may soon be placed beyond all human troubles.
Just as I was about to leave Santa Fé for Los Valles Grandes, the regimental adjutant since a distinguished brigadier-general in the war in the Philippines gave me a beautiful young setter named Victoriana, and called Vic for convenience. She was of canine aristocracy, possessing a fine pedigree, white and liver-colored, with mottled nose and paws, and a tail like the plume of Henry of Navarre.
Whenever Victoriana was sent on a message she was given a stick to deliver. It was plain that some one had sent her to either Frank or me. Of course, it could have been no one but Henry. She had come thus far, and had stepped into a bed of cholla.
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