# Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Author: Phillips, Henry Wallace, 1869-1930 Genre: Category: Short Stories Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19265 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Red+Saunders%27+Pets+and+Other+Critters+Phillips&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary "Of all the worlds I ever broke into, this one's the most curious," said Red. "And one of the curiousest things in it is that I think it's queer. Why should I, now? What put it into our heads that affairs ought to go so and so and so, when they never do anything of the sort? Take any book you read, or any story a man tells you: it runs along about how Mr. Smith made up his mind to do this or that, and proceeded to do it. And that never happened. What Mr. Smith calls making up his mind is nothing more nor less than Mr. Smith's dodging to cover under pressure of circumstances. That's straight. Old Lady Luck comes for Mr. Smith's mind, swinging both hands; she gives it a stem-winder on the e... ## Chapters - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/red-saunders-pets-and-other-critters-19265/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/red-saunders-pets-and-other-critters-19265/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/red-saunders-pets-and-other-critters-19265/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/red-saunders-pets-and-other-critters-19265/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/red-saunders-pets-and-other-critters-19265/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/red-saunders-pets-and-other-critters-19265/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/red-saunders-pets-and-other-critters-19265/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/red-saunders-pets-and-other-critters-19265/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/red-saunders-pets-and-other-critters-19265/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/red-saunders-pets-and-other-critters-19265/chapters/10/index.md)