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Be My Valentine

2008-01-25T14:20:00.000+08:00

Who is going to be your Valentine? Is it someone who is a beauty in everybody's eyes or is he/she someone who has a beauty in the heart? If you are lucky, you find both! That would be your most hard to get Valentine. You must not let your Valentine be gone like the wind, but treasure it just as you would have treasure a piece of antique art. Spend time to polish and spend time to appreciate and admire its beauty. Talk to it, touch it and feel it. But unlike the antique art, this piece of valuable and priceless art is a 'living art'. It will talk and answer you. It will respond to changes and it will grow. It can be as loyal as a dog if you take good care of it. It can also be very deadly if you hurt him/her.

Have you found your Valentine? Your Valentine need not be a beauty in everybody's eyes. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Love is blind and love will seal all the flaws and all the imperfections of your Valentine. If you have not found your Valentine, but only gets to admire lovers on the streets and lovers in the cinema, then you should admire no more. You should start dating and stop dreaming. Seek your Valentine at Online Dating Services and learn dating tips and read how to achieve successful relationships. Find your Valentine now, your happiness, your dream and your future. Date to find your Valentine! You still have two weeks more to find your Valentine!

On Cloud Nine

2008-01-24T22:17:00.000+08:00

This is the recent movie being shown on the television. The title of the movie is Something's Gotta Give, starring Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton and Keanu Reeves. Jack Nicholson, acting as Harry Sanborn, owns one of the largest hip-hop recording labels in the business. He was in his 60s, but had a fondness for young women. In the early part of the show, he had Marin (Amanda Peet) as his young girlfriend. He suffered a heart attack while romancing Marin. He was sent to the hospital where he was attended by a young doctor, Julian Mercer (Keanu Reeves). At the hospital, Harry was asked if he had taken Viagra but he was too shy to say yes. It was only after a drip was done that he changed his mind and admitted taking viagra.

With the use of viagra, he was able to bring another new life to Erica Barry(Diane Keaton), the successful playwright who had not been kissed nor touched by any man for ages. But knowing Harry, staying together for some time, they built their love from the home. Soon, their love peak and they had a wonderful night. Erica Barry was filled with happiness and crazy about that night. She said she had never felt better. She was really on cloud nine!

Erica chose the old man instead of the young doctor. The 'personal friend' of Chua Soi Lek also 'chosen' him despite their age difference. Chua Soi Lek is as old as Harry, but women are 'attracted' to them. All thanks to super drug Viagra! It makes people happier, on cloud nine!

Know Your Baby

2008-01-23T10:00:00.000+08:00

Through a process of mutual adaptation, mother and infant establish a pattern of meaningful interactions and build the foundation for trust. Infancy is a stage of strikingly rapid development. During the first year of life, the infant's birth weight almost triples. The baby seems to grow before one's very eyes. Parents will remark that they go to work in the morning, and their baby seems to have changed by the time they return in the evening! No wonder parents want to capture this rapid changes of their baby's growth for remembrance. They would not want to miss out any baby photographs contest either. To parents, their babies are always the cutest and loveliest of all. They will submit their baby photographs to Baby Photo Gallery and they would want to participate in baby forum, upload babies video, read about baby health topics or participate in parenting discussions and so on.

Most infants are marvelously flexible, capable of adapting to any of the varied social environments into which they may be born. From the day babies are born, they have the natural ability to cry. The cries are the language they convey to the people around them, which says they need something. Every cries has its reasons and being the caregiver, you have to know what it means. The instinct and natural bond establish between the child and the mother has the special calming effect which naturally 'tell' a mother what the child wants. To those people who just know the duo, they would be sometimes wonder how the mother knows what the baby is crying for. But it is indeed a fact. The mother was the one whom once shared the same nutrients, sacrificed her body for his/her existence and allow his/her excretions to be passed on to her own body. The mother petted him/her, talk and sing to him/her as soon as the tiny little 'dot' existed in her womb. If the mother does not understand the child, who would understand the child more than her?

Giving Out Red Packets

2008-01-22T10:41:00.000+08:00

The Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year is round the corner. To be exact, it will fall on 7th February and 8th February 2008, which is on Thursday and Friday respectively. This is a good news because Saturday and Sunday are no school days. That means to say, from Thursday to Sunday, No School! We, children always look forward to the arrival of this day of the year, the Chinese New Year. This is the time of the year where I can get Red Packets or "Ang Pow" from my aunts, uncles and also my parents.

According to customs, married couples have to give red packets to little children during Chinese New Year Days. Sometimes giving Red Packets are an headache to the adults. They want 'face' (pride) and yet they also want Money. If they give too much money to the kids (as in giving out Red Packets), they lose out when the other party give lesser amount of money to their own kids. Some married couples suffer even worser fate. After married for a couple of years, they have no children for years, despite how hard they try, or no matter what methods the old people teach them. Without Treatments for infertility, they are unable to conceive at all. Year after year, they have to give out Red Packets to children whenever children are present, who greeted them "Happy New Year". Some couples have fear so much so that whenever it comes to Chinese New Year, they would want to escape from this special day. They told relatives and friends, the couple want to go overseas holidays. They would rather spend their money on holidays than to 'waste money' giving out 'Charities Packet' to little children. This is so funny. The main importance of giving out Red Packet is just a tradition that is passed down to mean good wishes. The amount of money in it should not be a great problem. Infertility is no longer a major problem nowadays. As long as you have the will and determination, and of course Money, you can seek various treatments for infertility. Seek professional medical advice now if you have problems, so that next year, you can have babies to receive Red Packets!

Thoughts Of Love

2008-01-21T11:24:00.000+08:00

The picture above is a bottle of Country Collection Wild Rose Pot Pourri, and the picture below shows the contents of it. They consists of dried rose petals, giving off sweet fragrance to the surrounding air.

Its not how much you spent for your Valentine's Day Gifts. It is the thoughts that counts. However, if you can afford to spend more money on a person, it also got to show how much you love the person! So what is the right Valentine's Day Gifts that you are going to give to your boyfriend, girlfriend or husband/wife on this coming 14th February 2007? Are you going to give your spouse or lover something cheap but she loves or something expensive, which she had never dare to dream of?

If you are thinking of giving sweet fragrance to your spouse or lover, another alternative to pot pourri is the love scented flower sculptured candles or even beauty gift spa candle with aromatic oils. Lightinthebox is a world wide wholesaler from China. They supply 100 thousands of products abroad. This picture below is a snapshot taken from LightInTheBox and you can see various 'fragrance' products which can captivate your love. There are a wide array of price ranges and there is surely something which will suit your budget. If you would like to give your lover a bigger surprise, there are lots of other digital or electronic products available -- you can buy video game or electronic games, computer, jeweleries, MP3 or MP4 and even home and gardening products, as well as Clothing & Apparel. If your lover is a 'small kid', you can even give him/her their favourite toys -- soft stuffed toys and dolls!

Blog Your Thoughts

2008-01-18T00:26:00.001+08:00

Teachers always told their students to keep a journal. It is good to keep a journal. Write your thoughts of the day, things that happened on the day and you reflect on the things that you had done for the day. What are things that made your day and what are things that you should improve on? Some people use books for their daily journal. They write on them every night before they sleep. However, nowadays, I see many people having a new way of keeping journal. I have friends and families who have blogs as their journal. It is such a cool way to keep a digital journal! I had mine too, but I am too lazy to 'type' everyday. I love to play games than to 'write'!

However, I will write at my blogs and my journal every time I need to 'talk' to them or share my views and interest with my friends and readers. If you want to express your happiness, sorrows, or even tell the world anything about yourself, you can Create Blog now and start writing -- Create a Free Blog or personal online journal at Thoughts.com. It is very fun to have a digital journal, like that of a blog. You can Upload photos, videos, podcasts and even chat in the community forums and bookmark the latest news. You will have more friends and you can always express your views and exchange views with other people. In addition, Thoughts.com also allows you to decide for each blog post if you want it to be public, private, or only viewable by your friends and family. You have full control of what you want to share! If you are sad and lonely, enlarge your social circle. Make more friends, participate in chat and forum, express your thoughts in your blog!

I Am Pregnant

2008-01-17T17:56:00.000+08:00

You are not married. You are single and you may be studying! But you need to tell someone, a special someone whom will give you some hope and solution. This is because you discovered that you are pregnant! You are happy if you love the special someone who bring the extra little life to you. But what if it was an mistake or perhaps you were raped one night and then... Irregardless of the case, you know that your pregnancy is a mistake. How are you going to tell someone or anyone about your problem? That little life should not be here, you cannot afford to bring it to life. You have no ability at all -- financially, mentally and psychologically not prepared.

You are going to be anxious and worried from the day you discovered that you are pregnant. "Oh dear, what am I suppose to do? I am pregnant. I don't want to be pregnant. I cannot be pregnant. The baby has no father." Or perhaps you are going to say this to yourself,"How am I going to tell my mother? I am pregnant. I do not know who is the father of the child." Or is it going to be like this,"Oh dear, I am pregnant. I told Jackson about it, but he does not want the baby. Neither does he want to admit it. He wants to break up with me. What am I going to do?" These are all possibilities of unwanted pregnancies. You know that abortion is bad for your health and you are killing if you do that. But you have no choice. What should you do? I suggest the first thing you do is to talk to some people. Seek help at gurgle, the ultimate parenting and pregnancy resource. There are articles, videos, experts and answers for you and your baby. For the next few days to months, there are going to be major changes in your body. When is the due date for your baby and what are the changes which you are going to expect to your body? Find out more about pregnancy! Read and learn facts about pregnancy and who knows it might change your view of having a baby, even if you are a single mum! Read the article, "Are you ready for a baby?" and join groups like Guide to Baby or Mum Health and many more. Soon you will discover that you are not alone and there are so many people out there who can help you. There is always solution only if you want a way out. Smile and look at the bright sunshine!

Love Relationship

2007-11-07T14:36:00.000+08:00

Love is such a strange thing. One moment you two are so happy together, the next moment, the two would probably be quarreling and arguing and perhaps fighting over something. It is so easy to start a love relationship, and it is so easy to break up too.

When breakups happen, the parties involved are sad. There are always lessons to be learned from every relationship. Though it is normal to be sad and some people may not be able to accept the fact and they might do silly things like committing suicide, you must understand that there are always people who love you. Those people who love you are your parents, your friends and perhaps your children. When one door close, there is always another door which will be opened to you.

Seek and you will find. Everybody has their own uniqueness and specialty. You can find better lover than your ex-lover. You can find someone who love you more than your ex-partner. Take a break from this relationship, take sometime to get over it and start a new life. Go to Online Dating Services to know more friends and start dating to find your love again.

My Sad Attempt on The Impossible Quiz

2007-10-25T21:17:00.000+08:00

Haha like it? It's about my friend telling me how to do it though the answers for some of them. The title is "My Sad Attempt on The Impossible Quiz" because I failed to completed question 100. To finish the quiz you need to pass through question 199 which i did not.Though I know all the answers:
Question 1: Four
Question 2: No, but a tin can
Question 3: K.O
Question 4: THE ANSWER
Question 5: Right click then move over then click, or move off the screen.
Question 6: Shallots
Question 7: An elephant
Question 8: Yes!
Question 9: THAT ONE (top right)
Question 10: Dentures
Question 11: n
Question 12: The dot above "I"
Question 13: F'TAANG
Question 14: Torch
Question 15: HORSE
Question 16: H
Question 17: 17.
Question 18: Hammer
Question 19: Blue, Orange, Green, Green, Yellow (BOGGY)
Question 20: Seal!
Question 21: Green flash (top left)
Question 22: +1 Skip
Question 23: BRAN
Question 24: V
Question 25: Shoe Polish
Question 26: Arsefacey
Question 27: GO TO 28
Question 28: Abundance
Question 29: Egg Mayonnaise
Question 30: Cross through the tunnel
Question 31: Woof. Woof. Woof.
Question 32: Babycham and Human Faeces
Question 33: 7
Question 34: Remove mouse
Question 35: Green smiling button
Question 36: A walk
Question 37: Of course not
Question 38: Mary Rose
Question 39: Cylindrical Adventures
Question 40: Cross over the right-click menu
Question 41: AFRO
Question 42: 42nd 42
Question 43: Tom Cruise
Question 44: .
Question 45: WRONG (cross sun flag skull up)
Question 46: OMGF U KILLS SONIKKU U BASTUD
Question 47: Red
Question 48: SNAAAAKE!
Question 49: SPLAPP-ME-DO
Question 50: O.K.
Question 51: Fight! (mash the mouse)
Question 52: 3rd from left
Question 53: ...but pa might not
Question 54: No, about 20cm off the ground
Question 55: A games console for wholemeal biscuits
Question 56: Blue, red, blue, yellow
Question 57: Erm... one?
Question 58: Shepherd's Pie
Question 59: Charge ur lazer! (mash the mouse)
Question 60: No... (unless you did 59 without retrying upon running this flash)
Question 61: Thumbs up
Question 62: Moss
Question 63: Tasteless white filth
Question 64: Egg > 28
Question 65: LARGEST
Question 66: !
Question 67: A big hairy arsonist
Question 68: Stroke the cat
Question 69: LOL, 69
Question 70: Using its anus
Question 71: Green
Question 72: Middle far left switch (it's small)
Question 73: ? (top right)
Question 74: No one knows that
Question 75: ESCAPE!
Question 76: Sugar, honey, honey
Question 77: Question 77
Question 78: FOUR
Question 79: Click the U in the 3rd box, you'll see it turn green when you hover over it.
Question 80: Filthy Romanians
Question 81: Run cursor up and down lightning rod
Question 82: Clip the toenails
Question 83: National Dyslexic Association
Question 84: Green Shooting Star
Question 85: I loved it!
Question 86: The Prince
Question 87: .
Question 88: Break Sonic's leg (mash the mouse)
Question 89: Blindness
Question 90: Nonce
Question 91: Click under the third hole in the paper on the left side, it will start to rip. You have to click all the way across to make the paper rip in half.
Question 92: 194, 27, 26, 14, 9, 3, 2.5, 1, .4
Question 93: Go! (behind bomb)
Question 94: The bomb is a dud
Question 95: Remove mouse, click Red
Question 96: A right mess
Question 97: 10+ times!
Question 98: Blue, red, blue, yellow
Question 99: At green, click sign
Question 100: Two
Question 101: Chihuahua
Question 102: Touch the dots! (one of them doesn't have one)
Question 103: Slight down and slight right (you'll know)
Question 104: Large yellow sad moon (Hey! Why not the large gray sad moon?)
Question 105: BANANA (spell it from apple, nectarine, and gooseberry)
Question 106: Click the arrow (right-clicking whacks you in the head)
Question 107: Don't click TRY AGAIN on the game over screen
Question 108: 4 8 15 16 23 42 execute
Question 109: Make the monkey poo (mash the mouse), then click on arrow
Question 110: Use all seven skips

Care Givers

2007-05-31T16:28:00.000+08:00

The job of a care giver is not easy. It needs a lot of patience and care. It needs empathy and love. It needs guidance and skills too. In this society, care is provided to children, youth, elderly and disable people. These are the people who have problems looking after themselves when left alone at home. Their parents or children are too busy to look after them while at work.

Parents who left their children in the hands of the care givers will normally return to their care giver, to bring back the children home after finishing work. There are some children who get to see their parents only once a week when their parents choose to let the care givers take over their responsibilities when they are busy at work. This is the case for some youth and the disable people and mentally handicap people. As for children with elderly parents, they have their own family to look after.

Some families have elderly parents and young children to look after. Both the husband and the wife need to work too. As such, the care of the elderly parents and children are handed over into the hands of the care givers while these people go to work. However, some children choose to left their elderly parents in old folks home. Similarly for the disabled or mentally handicap people. These people are normally left in the homes for long term.

There are many types of care givers, private owned, churches, charities organization and so on. As there are lots of work and attention to be paid to these people in the homes, many of these elderly people and disabled people may be treated inappropriately or abuse at certain times.

Find Jobs

2007-05-30T23:55:00.000+08:00

We know that jobs are important in our lives. A stable job provide security in life. A stable job means you have a stable income to support your daily lives. Having a job means you can support yourself and your families. The level of significance of a job to a person is different. A job is very important to the sole breadwinner of a family. A job to a person whose purpose is just to pass time is of course not as significant as that of the breadwinner.

In this competitive world, many staff that is unproductive and not contributing values to the companies will be retrenched. Still there are always cases where some employees are being fired when they had made some serious mistakes repeated, causing losses to the companies and so on.

Losing jobs overnight or receiving notice of retrenchment is sad for the worker. So does a newly graduate who is eagerly searching for job, so that they can have the means to pay their students loans on time. To the newly graduates, searching for job may not be easy as they lack experience. The older workers who after being retrenched or lost their jobs have difficulties in finding jobs too.

But don't worry. Don't be sad. There are always many opportunities out there if you seek it.

Women Saved

2007-05-29T23:55:00.000+08:00

Once in his arms, but soon was pushed away. That is the hurt and betrayal faced by women from their men in their lives.

Are you sad that you have such a man by your side? Are you sad that you have met such man in your life? Are you sad that you are being treated unfairly by your man? Are you being abused by your man? Are you cheated by your man? There are too many questions to ask. Too many possibilities and unexpected things that men can do to women. That is perhaps the fact of life, women is the weaker sex and no matter how much a woman can earn, she is still a woman who need to submit to her husband.

Don't agree with me? Well, this is just my views. If you have your own stories to tell of your man, you are free to do so at WomanSavers.com-World's Largest Database Rating Abusive and Cheating Men. Not only can you pour your sorrows there, you can meet new friends, read about others stories too. There are jokes to cheer you up as well. What's so special about the website is that it contains over 25,000 men's names entered by women! WomanSavers.com is featured in the top 10% most popular women's websites.

Women always put their love life in the first place. Women value their love relationships. Perhaps that is how some men make use of such opportunities to cheat these women. Women can sacrifice a lot for the sake of their men but not the other way round. They placed their men as being their most important person in their life and when their men turn against them, they are at wits' end and do not know what to do. At WomanSavers.com, all sad women can gather, make friends, share stories. How nice to find similar friends, all thanks to this fantastic site at WomanSavers.

Sexual Differences

2007-05-28T01:22:00.000+08:00

To other man out there, are you sad that you are not able to make your woman happy? Are you sad when there are arguments and quarrels over so much differences between you and your woman? How can you better understand her? "You just don't understand me!" Is that what you often hear from your woman?

A lot of misunderstanding can arise between the man and woman. This is not because they don't love each other. A lot of time is due to differences in opinions and how man and woman think differently. In order to really understand your woman, reading can help solves your problems. Read up articles on the internet, find books on related topics, borrow books from the libraries and so on. Reading will definitely increase your knowledge and hence giving you a better understanding of what your woman wants.

Sex life is another aspects of building up your relationship with your woman. Sex are not learned in schools. Neither is sex ever practiced in schools. How can we ever satisfy our woman? How can we really improve our sex life so that we would never get rejected? Such questions are shunned by men. Every men want to tell their friends how well they are where sex is concerned. No one ever ask how they can improve their sex life. It is just so sensitive subject to be ever discussed.

A Dog's Death

2006-06-08T17:29:00.000+08:00

His master called him Turk. He was thin, yellow, and sad, with a pointed snout, a small build, and short, badly cropped ears that were always bleeding. The tail he wore on his rump looked like a scabby question mark. In the summertime, Turk went into the fields to guard the cattle, and into the roads to chase passers-by who dealt him swift kicks and pelted him with stones. His great joy, out in a mowed field, embroidered with sprouting clover, was to come across a hare that would bolt in front of him and to pursue it across hedges, moats, and streams with long leaps and wild sprints, returning out of breath with his legs trembling and his tongue hanging out, dripping with sweat. In the Winter, while the beasts stayed numbly in the warm beds of their stables, Turk kept to his own niche: a miserable, caved in-barrel, without straw, at the end of which he spent the days sleeping, curled up in a ball, or endlessly scratching himself. He ate a meager, stinking sustenance of larded bread scraps and dirty water, which was put out for him in the morning in a chipped stoneware bowl, and each time someone unknown to him penetrated to the center of the farm, he would lunge at them till he reached the end of his chain, and then bare his fangs and growl. He also accompanied his master to fairs when there was a calf to sell or a pig to buy, or to stops he needed to make at the inns around the city. Otherwise, he was resigned, faithful, and miserable, just like a dog. Once when he was coming home late from one of the more distant fairs with his master, he lost the man at a village cabaret. While his master drank a few short glasses of Three-Six, the dog decided to run through the neighborhood, eagerly digging through heaps of garbage, trying to unearth a bone or some precious thing of that sort. When he came back into the cabaret, ashamed of his escapade and bracing himself for some thumps on the back, he found only two half-drunken farmers who didn't know him at all and who chased him off with a boot, so Turk went away. The village was built on an intersection where six roads came together. Which one should he take? The poor dog looked puzzled at first. He cocked an ear so as to catch the sound of a familiar footstep on the wind, then he sniffed at the ground to discover the smell of fresh tracks, and then, letting out two little sighs, he swiftly departed. But soon he halted, disturbed and shivering all over. Now he walked at an angle, carefully, with his nose to the ground. He would go only a few yards into the shortcut roads that emptied into the main route, climb the embankment, smell the drunks who were sprawled out along the ditches, and then turn, spin around, retrace his steps, probing the smallest cluster of trees and the smallest clump of gorse bushes. Night was falling. To the right and left of the road, the fields were drowned in purple shadow. As the moon rose, climbing into the smooth, cloudless sky, Turk sat down on his rump, with his neck stretched out, his head pointed straight at the astral globe, and for a long, long time he cried: "Houou! Houou! Houou!" Everywhere there was a grand, spreading silence. "Houou! Houou! Houou!" From the depths of the night, only the dogs at neighboring farms answered the sobs of the poor animal. The brilliant, magical moon steadily rose, and the dog's shadow stretched across the silver surface of the road. Mr. Bernard, a notary, left his house at the crack of dawn and was about to start on his usual stroll. He was dressed entirely in black cashmir, as is fitting for a notary. But, as it happened to be the height of the Summer, Mr. Bernard figured that he could liven up his attire with an umbrella made of white alpaca. Everything was still sleeping in the town. A few bars had hardly opened their doors, and a few road-laborers with pickaxes on their shoulders had just started off to work with sleepy footsteps. "Always up early, eh, Mr. Bernard?" asked one of them, greeting him with respect. Mr. Bernard was about to reply --for he was not an arrogant man --when he saw approaching from the end of the wide, level Boulevard, a dog so jaundiced, so skinny, so sad, and so filthy, and who seemed so tired that Mr. Bernard instinctively stepped aside and placed himself against a plane tree. That dog was Turk --poor, lamentable Turk. "Uh-oh!" said Mr. Bernard, "There's a dog I don't know! Uh-oh!" In small towns, one knows all the dogs, just as one knows all the citizens, and the appearance of an unknown dog is just as important and troubling an event as that of a stranger. The dog passed in front of a fountain that stood in the center of the Boulevard, and didn't stop. "Uh-oh!" Mr. Bernard said to himself, "This dog, who I don't know, doesn't even stop at the fountain! Uh-oh! This dog is mad: obviously it has rabies." Trembling, he armed himself with a large stone. The dog came toward him, trotting along gently with his head down. "Uh-oh!" Mr. Bernard screamed, turning pale, "I see the foam. Uh-oh! Help! The foam! Help!" Using the plane tree as a shield, he threw the stone, but the dog paid no attention. Turk looked at the notary with his soft eyes, turned back onto the road, and left. In an instant, the little town was awakened by the disturbing news: a mad dog! Faces still puffy with sleep appeared at windows; animated groups of men in their shirtsleeves or women in nightshirts and caps, formed on doorsteps. The more intrepid among them were armed with pitchforks, stakes, spades, billhooks, and rakes; the joiner gesticulated with his plane, the butcher with his cleaver; the little hunchbacked shoemaker, an avid reader of mail-order dime novels with an obscene smile, proposed refined and dreadful tortures. "Where is it? Where is it?" While the little town raised its defenses, and all the people fired up their courage, Mr. Bernard had awakened the mayor and told him the terrible story: "It lunged at me with the foam on its teeth, Mr. Mayor, and it almost bit me, Mr. Mayor!" Bernard cried out, reaching down to feel his calves, thighs, and stomach. "Oh, I've seen plenty of mad dogs in my day. Yes indeed, plenty of them. But, Mr. Mayor, I've never, ever seen one more rabid, or more awful than this one. Oh!" The mayor, quite dignified but also very perplexed, shook his head and reflected for a moment. "It's serious... very serious!" he murmured. "But are you sure that he's as mad as all that?" "As mad as all that?"" shouted Bernard indignantly. "If only you could have seen it, if you could've seen that foam, those bloodshot eyes, and that fur standing on end... it wasn't even a dog anymore. It was a tiger. A tiger! A tiger!" Then, becoming solemn, he looked straight into the mayor's face and slowly pronounced: "Listen, It's not a question of politics here, Mr. Mayor. It's a matter of public safety. Let me repeat: It's a matter of the safety and the protection of the citizens. If you shirk the responsibilities that are incumbent upon you, if you do not make a firm decision this instant, you'll soon regret it, Mr. Mayor. That's what I, Bernard, Notary Public, am saying to you!" Mr. Bernard was of the radical opposition and an enemy of the mayor. The latter hesitated no longer, and the rural policeman was summoned. Turk was stretched out, tranquilly taking refuge on the square where no one dared approach him, gnawing a bone of mutton which he held between his two crossed paws. The rural policeman, armed with a rifle entrusted to him by the mayor, and followed by a sizable procession, advanced until he was ten paces from the dog. From the balcony of the town hall, the mayor, who attended the spectacle with Mr. Bernard, couldn't help but remark to him, "And yet it eats!" in the same voice that Galileo must have used in pronouncing his famous phrase. "Yes, he eats... the horrible animal, the sly devil!" responded Bernard, and addressing the policeman, he commanded: "Careful! Don't get so close!" The moment took on a solemn tone. The policeman, with his cap leaning on his ear, his sleeves rolled up, and his face animated by a heroic fever, loaded his rifle. "Don't push me!" said one voice. "Don't miss!" said another. "Aim at the head!" "Not at the armpit?" "Watch out!" yelled the policeman. Apparently uncomfortable in his cap, he sent it rolling in the dust behind him with a brusque gesture. "Stand clear!" He took aim at the poor, lamentable dog, who had discarded his bone and now regarded the mob with a soft, teary eye, seeming not to suspect what it was that all these people wanted with him. Presently a grand silence imposed itself upon the commotion. The women stopped their ears with their fingers, not waiting for the gunshot; the men blinked their eyes, huddling against each other. An anguish gripped the crowd, in the expectation of something extraordinary and horrible. The policeman steadily held his aim. BOOM! BOOM! At the same moment there pealed out a cry of prolonged and piercing pain, a bellowing that filled up the town. The dog stood up. Hobbling on three legs, he fled, letting little drops of blood fall behind him. And while the dog ran and ran, the rural policeman looked at his rifle, stupefied; the dumbfounded crowd looked at the policeman, and the mayor stared open-mouthed at Mr. Bernard, overcome with horror and indignation. Turk ran all day, dancing pitifully on his three legs, bleeding, stopping sometimes to lick the wound, then stumbling off again; he ran through roads, fields, and villages. But everywhere the terrifying news of a rabid dog preceded him: its eyes are haggard; its fur is standing on end; its drooling mouth is smeared with crimson froth. The villages were in arms and the farms were bristling with scythes. Stones flying everywhere, blows from clubs, shots from rifles! His body was no more than a single wound, one horrid wound made of hacked living flesh, leaving blood in the dust of the roadways, reddening the grass, and coloring the stream in which he bathed. He kept running and running, tripping over rocks, clods of earth, and clumps of vegetation, followed incessantly by the cries of death. Toward evening, he entered into a field of tall, ripe corn, where a breeze was softly rocking the golden ears back and forth. With his sides heaving and his legs stiff, Turk collapsed on a bed of poppies, and there, as some scattering partridges called back and the crickets sang, he died without uttering a complaint, surrounded by the murmurs of Nature herself, who lulled him to sleep and who summons the souls of the poor dogs that sleep on the brilliant and magical Moon.
"La Mort du Chien" originally appeared in the monarchist paper Le Galois under the pen name Henry Lys on August 23, 1884, about a year before the author's conversion to anarchism. Translated from French by Robert Helms.

Dog's Death

2006-06-08T17:05:00.000+08:00

She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car.Too young to know much, she was beginning to learnTo use the newspapers spread on the kitchen floorAnd to win, wetting there, the words, "Good dog!
We thought her shy malaise was a shot reaction.The autopsy disclosed a rupture in her liver.As we teased her with play, blood was filling her skinAnd her heart was learning to lie down forever.
Monday morning, as the children were noisily fedAnd sent to school, she crawled beneath the youngest's bed.We found her twisted and limp but still alive.In the car to the vet's, on my lap, she tried
To bite my hand and died. I stroked her warm furAnd my wife called in a voice imperious with tears.Though surrounded by love that would have upheld her,Nevertheless she sank and, stiffening, disappeared.
Back home, we found that in the night her frame,Drawing near to dissolution, had endured the shameOf diarrhoea and had dragged across the floorTo a newspaper carelessly left there. Good dog.