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Updated: May 18, 2025
In the highest poetry, there is no word so familiar, but a great man will "bring good out of it, or rather, it will bring good to him, and answer some end for which no other word would have done equally well. A common person, for instance, would be mightily puzzled to apply the word 'whelp' to anyone, with a view of flattering him.
'The living cannot subsist by the dead, murmured the Rev. Mr. Jonas. 'Even though our poor brother lies ready-tombed we shall begin our repast, thankful that our unworthy lives still exercise His care. 'Here's brimstone and blazes to the whelp in hell, shouted Murfrey, as he swallowed nigh upon a tumbler of brandy.
"So you're blubbering, are you, you obstinate whelp?" said the deep voice of the captain, as he came up and gave me a box on the ear that nearly felled me to the deck. "I don't allow any such weakness aboard o' this ship. So clap a stopper on your eyes or I'll give you something to cry for."
Amid his sobs it was learned that the boy's father sent him on an errand; that while peacefully walking the street, a soldier rushed upon him swearing, aiming a blow, felling him to the ground with his sword. "I'll kill every Yankee whelp in Boston," said the redcoat. Again there was a commotion soldiers rushing towards Dock Square. "Where are the blackguards? let's kill 'em," they shouted.
The crowd surged back. Owner and jockey were face to face. "When thieves fall out!" they thought; and they waited for the fun. Something was due them. It came in a flash. Waterbury shot out his big fist, and little Garrison thumped on the turf with a bang, a thin streamer of blood threading its way down his gray-white face. "You miserable little whelp!" howled his owner. "You've dishonored me.
Matt Peasley laughed blithely. "You miserable, cold-blooded, nagging old woman," he said, and took Mr. Skinner by the nape and shook him. "I've prayed for this day. Do you remember the time you wired me at Coos Bay that my timidity had lost you some passenger traffic? You impugned my courage then, you whelp, and now I'm going to give you a sample of it.
If you move I'll kill this whelp here and then you." "Do as he says, Stallins," groaned the frightened "Captain." "He's got the drop on me. Drop your gun, but holler to the boys in the front car to come out." To Shorty's amazement a score of men came rushing back from the car next ahead of the caboose.
When they came back home, it was plain they had been up to suthin' besides fishin'. Well, Tim might as well have touched a lion's whip what do you call it?" "Whelp. I was reading about lions to-day." "Yes, touched a lion's whelp as touched your father; for didn't Aunt Stanshy pitch into him! I heard it all.
During this whole time the whelp moved about with Mr. Bounderby like his shadow, assisting in all the proceedings. He was greatly excited, horribly fevered, bit his nails down to the quick, spoke in a hard rattling voice, and with lips that were black and burnt up.
And as I listened, I realized, ignorant young whelp though I was, that this man was different from any man I had ever met or imagined. He wasn't human; he was a freak, a human-looking thing with a tiger's nature. Always he reminded me of a cat, from the very first moment I clapped eyes upon him; never did he remind me more of a cat or tiger than when he sat upon the keg and teased Newman.
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