Keeper
Haworth’s stationer, John Greenwood, recorded in his diary a violently protective scene in which Emily broke up Keeper’s encounter with another dog:
She never spoke a word, nor appeared the least at a loss what to do, but rushed at once into the kitchen, took the pepper box, and away into the lane where she found the two savage brutes each holding the other by the throat. In deadly grip, while several other animals, who thought themselves men, were standing looking on like cowards as they were, afraid to touch them—there they stood gaping, watching this fragile creature spring upon the beasts—seizing Keeper ’round the neck with one arm, while with the other hand she dredges their noses with pepper, and separating them by force of her great will, driving Keeper, that great powerful dog, before her into the house, never once noticing the men, so called, standing there thunderstruck at the deed. From: the-animalistic-emily-/
It's interesting to place this event next to Emily's beating of Keeper when he gave Aunt cause to complain of his disobedience in the house. It's likely Emily had assured her Aunt , Keeper would not lie on the beds again...well he certainly didn't after Emily gave him "the hard word"
BeantwoordenVerwijderenIt's quite another matter when Keeper was in danger from an outsider . Emily's solution is brilliant: The pepper box .