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[0732] with a malacca. [0733] The dog was uniformly yellow, a mongrel I suppose, or
a pedigree, I can never tell the difference. [0734] His death must have hurt
him less than my fall me. [0735] And he at least was dead. [0736] We slung him across
the saddle and set off like an army in retreat, helping each other I
suppose, to keep the corpse from ^falling, to keep the bicycle moving, to
keep ourselves moving, through the jeering crowd.

[0737] The house where Sophie-
— no, I can't call her that any more, I'll try calling her Lousse,
without the Mrs — the house where Lousse lived was not far away. [0738] Oh
it was not nearby either, I had my bellyful by the time I got there.
[0739] That is to say I didn't have it really. [0740] You think you have your bellyful
but you seldom have it really.

[0741] It was because I knew I was there that I
had my bellyful, a mile more to go and I would only have had my bellyful
an hour later. [0742] ^{[⁁]Human nature.} [0742|001] ^{Marvellous thing.} [0742|002] The house where Lousse lived.
[0743] Must I describe it? [0744] I don't think so. [0745] I won't, that's all I know, for
the moment. [0746] Perhaps later on, if I get to know it. [0747] And Lousse? [0748] Must
I describe her? I suppose ^[⁁]so.

[0749] Let's first bury the dog. [0750] It was
she dug the hole, under a tree. [0751] You always bury your dog under a tree,
I don't know why. [0752] But I have my suspicions. [0753] It was she dug the hole
because I couldn't , though I was the gentleman, because of my leg.
[0754] That is to say I could have dug with a trowel, but not with a spade.
[0755] For when you dig a grave^[₰] one leg supports the weight of the body while
the other, flexing and unflexing, drives the spade into the earth.

[0756] Now
my sick leg, I forget which, it's immaterial here, was in a condition
neither to dig, because it was rigid, nor alone to support me, because
it would have collapsed. [0757] I had so to speak only one leg at my disposal,
I was virtually onelegged, and I would have been happier, ^{[⁁]livelier},
amputated at the groin. [0758] And if they had removed a few testicles into
the bargain I wouldn't have objected. [0759] For from ^[⁁]such testicles ^{[⁁]as mine},