10. Paragraphs 13-14

  

Montmorency came near to them and sat down on the things to be packed for the trip. Also, Montmorency had a strong belief that whenever Harris and George reached out for their hands for anything, it would think that they were stretching out for his "cold, damp nose" and would bring it forward for them. Usually, dogs will behave in the same manner because they want to play with others. So they would come near people by thinking that they had called him.
 

 

Later, Montmorency put its legs into the jam. It shook the teaspoons and acted as if the lemons were rats and stepped into the hamper to kill these rats. According to Montmorency, the lemons appeared like rats. So before Harris came to hit him with a frying – pan, Montmorency killed the three lemons, assuming them as a rat. Here the word "killed" used in a sense of destroying it.
 

 

After seeing the behaviour of Montmorency, Harris blamed the narrator. Harris said he was the cause for all the problems because he had encouraged Montmorency to make all this mischief. Usually, if a dog commits any wrong or mischief, its owner would be accused of that. People would question the owner because he was the one responsible for its mistake. After hearing the statement of Harris, the narrator stated that it was not his fault and he did not encourage him. Also, he stated that a dog did not need any encouragement to do things in its desired way. In addition, he stated that it was the natural character of the dog. The dog was born to act like that. The reason behind the statement was that each God's creations had its way of living. Likewise, dogs, cats and other animals will commit mistakes because they are born to do such activities. And they did not know what was right or wrong. They usually do things to make it fun.
 
Finally, the packing of George and Harris got over by 12. 50. Later, Harris rested for a while on the big hamper and said that hopefully, nothing would break in it. At that moment, George said that if anything was broken inside, let it be broken. He said to chill him because they were already tired and had no other way of cleaning. So George made the statement that whatever was going to happen or happened already, let it be, and nothing would change. Later, George said that he was ready to sleep since their packing got over as well. It was 12.50 am, and they had to take a short nap to continue their next day's trip. Meanwhile, the others also said they, too, were tired and went off to sleep. That night Harris wished to sleep with them because already it was midnight and tired, so he thought of spending the night at the narrator's home. At last, the narrator, George and Harris went upstairs to sleep.