Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“A dog like that don’t want any encouragement. It’s the natural, original sin that is born in him that makes him do things like that.”
- Date
- 1889
- Local voice
- Fictional narrator · J. (first-person narrator)
Meaning of “A dog like that don’t want any encouragement.…”
The mock-theological explanation treats ordinary canine mischief as inherited moral corruption, exaggerating the dog’s nuisance behavior into a theory of original sin.
Where does it come from?
Three Men in a Boat, packing episode; the narrator rejects Harris’s claim that he encourages Montmorency’s disruptive behavior.
Why the local voice matters
Three Men in a Boat, packing episode; the narrator rejects Harris’s claim that he encourages Montmorency’s disruptive behavior.
