RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. My dog the beloved Polly. CUL-DAR88.17. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. RN1
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My dog the beloved Polly, is at such times after committing some undiscovered offence extremely affectionate towards me; & this leads me to relive a little anecdote; when I was a very small boy, I had committed some offence so that my conscience was troubled; & when I met by FatherŲ I lavished so much affection on him, that he at once asked what I had done & begged me to confess. I was so utterly confused at his suspecting anything, that I have remembered the scene to the present day; & it seems to me that Polly's frame of mind is on such occasion much the same as was my own; for I was not [few words illeg]
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