Our dramatic scene involves a trapped bird being hunted by a cat. The bird is named Cocky, after the sound of his call. "Cocky" is a "brave sparkle of life on the planet", and the friend of two eponymous dogs, who has unintentionally been left behind.
.... Cocky was his brave little self again. He sat motionless on the window-sill, his head cocked to the side, with one unwavering eye regarding on the floor, so perilously near, the eternal enemy of all his kind. The human quality of his voice had startled the gutter-cat, causing her to forgo her spring as she flattened down her ears and bellied closer to the floor....[A] bottle fly buzzed rowdily against an adjacent window-pane, with occasional loud bumps against the glass, tokening that he too had his tragedy, a prisoner pent by baffling transparency from the bright world that blazed so immediately beyond.....The gutter cat prepared and sprang with sudden descision, landing where Cocky had perched a fraction of a second before ...
We read that the dog London wrote about in the first book, Jerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story (1917) did actually exist.
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