Patrick Reginald Chalmers — a remark

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“But always he had a faith in, and a devotion to, his often tyrant (I’ve said that he was the usual keeper’s dog) that neither curses could wither nor custom (the habitual kick in the ribs) stale.”

Celebrating loyalty that survives harsh treatment · Book, Gun-Dogs (1931), Curly-coated Retriever chapter

About Patrick Reginald Chalmers

Patrick Reginald Chalmers

27 June 1872–12 September 1942

Patrick Reginald Chalmers was born on 27 June 1872 at Brechin, Angus, Scotland, and died on 12 September 1942. He belonged to that substantial but now less frequently discussed group of early twentieth-century British writers whose literary lives flourished outside the most conspicuous movements of their age. Chalmers…

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