The Story My Doggie Told to Me

CHAPTER PAGE I PLAY DAYS 3 II WHAT WE LEARNED 11 III PUPPY TROUBLES 18 IV WHEN I ATE MY COLLAR 25 V HOW I DUG FOR A BADGER 34 VI THE FROG WHO WAS A TOAD 43 VII THE CROSS DUCK 50...

I HOW WE WENT HUNTING 87 II HOW WE SPENT CHRISTMAS 98 III MORE LESSONS 106 IV A VISIT TO JACK 115 V THE TURTLE 123 VI AT THE DOG SHOW 130 VII THE STRANGE MAN 143 VIII HOW I WAS...

I always begin a story that way. It is what you Two-Legged Folks call “making your bow.” With us dogs it means “Hello” and “How do you do” and “Good morning” and――and lots of ot...

Ju-ju was a cat. She was grey, like smoke, and had a bushy tail and long hair and yellow eyes. I don’t think yellow eyes are very pretty, do you? None of us ever liked Ju-ju ver...

We learned a good deal about what was good to eat and what wasn’t, too. Once Delia left a tin pan filled with some whitish stuff on the back steps and I ate quite a lot of it be...

After that William put the strap on us every day for a while and we got used to it. It was all right as soon as Freya understood that she was to go the way I wanted to go. But i...

Next door to us was a dog named Jack. There was a wide field between our house and Jack’s and so he lived quite a way from us. But he used to come over to our place pretty often...

When I thought about it afterwards it seemed strange that I should not be allowed to dig holes when digging holes was what I was for. But every time I did it some one, William o...

The next day my mouth and tongue were quite well once more, but it was more than a week before I got brave enough to hunt frogs again. In fact, I have never cared for frog-hunti...

Are you scared of thunder storms? I am, too. Well, not exactly scared, maybe, but I――I don’t like them very well. I don’t mind the lightning so much, but the thunder is very noi...

But she didn’t go, after all, for which Freya and I were sorry. And even though we stayed around the house a lot in the hope that she would come out so we could run at her and j...

More company came after that. It was in the Fall, when the leaves were turning to beautiful colours and falling off the trees and when the mornings and nights were quite cool an...

So you want to hear some more of my story, do you? Very well. It’s a very good day to sit here by the fire and tell stories, because it is raining hard and there isn’t much a do...

The next day the Master, the Mistress, the Baby, William and us dogs went for a walk together. William carried an axe and a piece of rope. I thought we were going hunting. The s...

It was in February that Father and Mother began going away from home for three and four days at a time. William usually went with them, but once the Master went. Each time they...

William always thought whatever Freya did was all right. I made up my mind to show them that I could behave just as well as she could, and so I went back to the carriage room.

A week before we were to go to Oak Cliff William began to groom us every morning and evening. We were rubbed all over with a cloth that was wet with something that smelled good...

We started out, William and Freya and I, very early one morning for the dog show. I think it was a Saturday. Anyhow, I remember that we had liver for breakfast the next day, and...

There were no more dog shows for us that summer, although Father and Mother went to one in August and Father came back with three blue ribbons and Mother with a blue and two red...

The man took me into the house, which was just as dirty and untidy as the yard and smelt badly, and tied the string to the leg of a table there. He went into another room for a...

It was a long journey and I was terribly frightened. After the man had walked a long way there was a lot of noise and then we were in a train, only I didn’t know what it was at...

I was having a little nap at the back of my cage when I heard a lady’s voice say: “No, thank you, we are just looking about. My little boy wants to see the dogs.”