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My
Dog-man
imperceptibly
slipped
back
to
the
dog
again
;
day
by
day
he
became
dumb
,
quadrupedal
,
hairy
.
I
scarcely
noticed
the
transition
from
the
companion
on
my
right
hand
to
the
lurching
dog
at
my
side
.
As
the
carelessness
and
disorganisation
increased
from
day
to
day
,
the
lane
of
dwelling
places
,
at
no
time
very
sweet
,
became
so
loathsome
that
I
left
it
,
and
going
across
the
island
made
myself
a
hovel
of
boughs
amid
the
black
ruins
of
Moreau
's
enclosure
.
Some
memory
of
pain
,
I
found
,
still
made
that
place
the
safest
from
the
Beast
Folk
.
It
would
be
impossible
to
detail
every
step
of
the
lapsing
of
these
monsters
,
--
to
tell
how
,
day
by
day
,
the
human
semblance
left
them
;
how
they
gave
up
bandagings
and
wrappings
,
abandoned
at
last
every
stitch
of
clothing
;
how
the
hair
began
to
spread
over
the
exposed
limbs
;
how
their
foreheads
fell
away
and
their
faces
projected
;
how
the
quasi-human
intimacy
I
had
permitted
myself
with
some
of
them
in
the
first
month
of
my
loneliness
became
a
shuddering
horror
to
recall
.
The
change
was
slow
and
inevitable
.
For
them
and
for
me
it
came
without
any
definite
shock
.
I
still
went
among
them
in
safety
,
because
no
jolt
in
the
downward
glide
had
released
the
increasing
charge
of
explosive
animalism
that
ousted
the
human
day
by
day
.
But
I
began
to
fear
that
soon
now
that
shock
must
come
.
My
Saint-Bernard-brute
followed
me
to
the
enclosure
every
night
,
and
his
vigilance
enabled
me
to
sleep
at
times
in
something
like
peace
.
The
little
pink
sloth-thing
became
shy
and
left
me
,
to
crawl
back
to
its
natural
life
once
more
among
the
tree-branches
.
We
were
in
just
the
state
of
equilibrium
that
would
remain
in
one
of
those
"
Happy
Family
"
cages
which
animal-tamers
exhibit
,
if
the
tamer
were
to
leave
it
for
ever
.
Of
course
these
creatures
did
not
decline
into
such
beasts
as
the
reader
has
seen
in
zoological
gardens
,
--
into
ordinary
bears
,
wolves
,
tigers
,
oxen
,
swine
,
and
apes
.
There
was
still
something
strange
about
each
;
in
each
Moreau
had
blended
this
animal
with
that
.
One
perhaps
was
ursine
chiefly
,
another
feline
chiefly
,
another
bovine
chiefly
;
but
each
was
tainted
with
other
creatures
,
--
a
kind
of
generalised
animalism
appearing
through
the
specific
dispositions
.
And
the
dwindling
shreds
of
the
humanity
still
startled
me
every
now
and
then
,
--
a
momentary
recrudescence
of
speech
perhaps
,
an
unexpected
dexterity
of
the
fore-feet
,
a
pitiful
attempt
to
walk
erect
.
I
too
must
have
undergone
strange
changes
.
My
clothes
hung
about
me
as
yellow
rags
,
through
whose
rents
showed
the
tanned
skin
.
My
hair
grew
long
,
and
became
matted
together
.
I
am
told
that
even
now
my
eyes
have
a
strange
brightness
,
a
swift
alertness
of
movement
.
At
first
I
spent
the
daylight
hours
on
the
southward
beach
watching
for
a
ship
,
hoping
and
praying
for
a
ship
.
I
counted
on
the
"
Ipecacuanha
"
returning
as
the
year
wore
on
;
but
she
never
came
.
Five
times
I
saw
sails
,
and
thrice
smoke
;
but
nothing
ever
touched
the
island
.
I
always
had
a
bonfire
ready
,
but
no
doubt
the
volcanic
reputation
of
the
island
was
taken
to
account
for
that
.
It
was
only
about
September
or
October
that
I
began
to
think
of
making
a
raft
.
By
that
time
my
arm
had
healed
,
and
both
my
hands
were
at
my
service
again
.
At
first
,
I
found
my
helplessness
appalling
.
I
had
never
done
any
carpentry
or
such-like
work
in
my
life
,
and
I
spent
day
after
day
in
experimental
chopping
and
binding
among
the
trees
.
I
had
no
ropes
,
and
could
hit
on
nothing
wherewith
to
make
ropes
;
none
of
the
abundant
creepers
seemed
limber
or
strong
enough
,
and
with
all
my
litter
of
scientific
education
I
could
not
devise
any
way
of
making
them
so
.
I
spent
more
than
a
fortnight
grubbing
among
the
black
ruins
of
the
enclosure
and
on
the
beach
where
the
boats
had
been
burnt
,
looking
for
nails
and
other
stray
pieces
of
metal
that
might
prove
of
service
.
Now
and
then
some
Beast-creature
would
watch
me
,
and
go
leaping
off
when
I
called
to
it
.
There
came
a
season
of
thunder-storms
and
heavy
rain
,
which
greatly
retarded
my
work
;
but
at
last
the
raft
was
completed
.
