Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men

I like living with bachelors. They have comfortable chairs, and keep good fires. They don't put water into the tea-pot: they call the man-servant and send for more tea. They don...

"My son's first wife died after Christian was born," said the old woman. "I've a sharp tongue, as you know, Sybil Stanley, and I'm doubtful if she was too happy while she lived;...

My ancestor's artifice was very successful when the race was run on two sides of a hedge, backwards and forwards; but if a louis d'or and a bottle of brandy had depended on my r...

I flatter myself that my head is not remarkable for size and beauty alone. I am a cat of mind, and I made it up at once as to the course of conduct to pursue.

"I feel for her myself," was my reply. "The cares of a family are heavy enough when they only last for the season, and one sleeps them off in a winter's nap. When--as in the cas...

My name is Toots. Why, I have not the slightest idea. But I suppose very few people--cats or otherwise--are consulted about their own names. If they were, these would perhaps be...

The care of a large family is no light matter, as everybody knows. And that year I had an unusually large family. No less than seven young urchins for Mrs. Hedgehog and myself t...

That summer--I mean the summer when I had seven--we had the most charming home imaginable. It was in a wood, and on that side of the wood which is farthest from houses and highr...

"We are all creatures of habit." So my learned uncle, Draen y Coed, who was a Welsh hedgehog, used to say. "Which was why an ancestor of my own, who acted as turnspit in the kit...

"The animal Man," so I have heard my uncle, who was a learned hedgehog, say,--"the animal man is a diurnal animal; he comes out and feeds in the daytime." But a second cousin, w...

Good Mrs. Hedgehog hurt one of her feet slightly in our hurried retreat, and next day was obliged to rest it; but as our curiosity was more on the alert than ever, I went down i...