“The Author begs to assure her young readers that the principal circumstances on which this little story is founded are true. The friendship between the two animals, the dog’s journey home, and return in company with his friend, are facts which occurred within her own knowledge.”
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These four stories originally appeared in The American Boy, Our Animal Friends, and The New York Herald.
Contents of the Book “Little Comrade” The Cat “Just As Easy As — As––” The Trophy The Catastrophe The Rescue Ted and His “Sergeant” The Sergeant Is Introduced Disputed Ownership Company K’s Mascot Hail To The Chief! A Little Derelict A Strange Voyage Not A Sparrow Shall Fall Old Dolly’s Discovery “All For Dimmie And Me” Madge Harding’s “Curmudge” Download the eBook PDF
“Once upon a time I can’t say exactly when it was there stood a neat, tidy little hut on the borders of a wild forest. A poor old woman dwelt in this hut. She lived on the whole pretty comfortably; for, though she was poor, she was able to keep a few goats, that supplied her with milk, and a flock of chickens, that gave her fresh eggs every morning: and then she had a small garden, which she cultivated with her own hands, and that supplied her with cabbages and other vegetables, besides gooseberries and apples for dumplings.
“One evening when a company of children and older people were looking at funny cat-pictures and telling cat-stories, a little ten year-old girl asked: ‘Why can there not be a Cats’ Arabian Nights Story Book?‘”
On This Page Chapters Download the eBook Publication Information “There would have to be a Cat King, or Emperor, or Sultan,” said her next older sister.
“And a Cat Queen, or Empress, or Sultaness,” said their cousin Joe, the sailor.
“By this time Tommy was six months old, and as full of pranks as a six-months-old kitten well could be. His education had begun the very moment he entered the Hartford postoffice, so it is not surprising that by the time he had spent half a year there he was really remarkable.
Chapters The Adventures Of Tommy Postoffice – The True Story Of A Cat 1. Tommy’s First Appearance 2.
“There were piles of hay and straw, there were bags of grain, there were rakes and spades and wheelbarrows, there was a carriage, and there was a sleigh. Dixie climbed up one of the shafts of the sleigh and stretched out her paw to touch a bell. She only wanted to see what it was…
Chapters The Home Nest Leaving Home Dixie Finds A Friend Dixie and the Cottage Dixie’s Troubles The Little Mothercat Dixie is Deserted A Happy Little Cat The New House Dixie in her Home Dixie in her Home (continued) Download the eBook PDF
”…Did you ever hear of a cat taking in boarders? I never did till I heard of Peter. But he was a real cat, and this is a true story I am going to tell you… – From “Peter’s Boarding House”
Stories in this Volume Crow’s Language Lesson. A Saucy Thief. Mrs. Wiggins’ Sweet Peas. Tippie’s Visit. Ponce’s Vacation. Brave Trix. Peter’s Boarding-house. How Muff Won Her Way. How The Kittens Were Named.
“In throwing these various adventures together, I have followed as nearly as possible the actual course of my journeying from one country to another, so as to form the whole into a sort of continuous narrative, though in one case I jump from Brazil to Texas in order to bring in some relevant incidents which occurred long after the one related in the first part of the Brazilian story.
“I do not feel wholly sure that my Kitty wrote these letters herself. They always came inside the letters written to me by my mama, or other friends, and I never caught Kitty writing at any time when I was at home; but the printing was pretty bad, and they were signed by Kitty’s name; and my mama always looked very mysterious when I asked about them, as if there were some very great secret about it all; so that until I grew to be a big girl, I never doubted but that Kitty printed them all alone by herself, after dark.
“Was it not Sir Walter Scott who said, ‘I hate to love a dog, he lives so short a life?’ Yet Sir Walter did love dogs with rare devotion, as the traditions of Abbotsford, as well as much that he himself has written, affirm.
On This Page Jack London’s Call of the Wild From the Introduction Contents (172 pages) About the Author – Egerton R. Young Download the eBook Jack London’s Call of the Wild My Dogs in the Northland (1902) was used as source material by the author Jack London for his novel “The Call of the Wild_ (1903).