# History of my pets

Author: Greenwood, Grace, 1823-1904; Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71523

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=History+of+my+pets+Greenwood&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The first pet, in whose history you would take any interest, came into my possession when I was about nine years old. I remember the day as plainly as I remember yesterday. I was going home from school, very sad and out of humor with myself, for I had been marked deficient in Geography, and had gone down to the very foot in the spelling-class. On the way I was obliged to pass a little old log-house, which stood near the road, and which I generally ran by in a great hurry, as the woman who lived there had the name of being a scold and a sort of a witch. She certainly was a stout, ugly woman, who drank a great deal of cider, and sometimes beat her husband,--which was very cruel, as he was a...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-my-pets-71523/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-my-pets-71523/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-my-pets-71523/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-my-pets-71523/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-my-pets-71523/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-my-pets-71523/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-my-pets-71523/chapters/7/index.md)