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Title: True stories about dogs & cats
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot, 1787-1860
Subjects: Dogs Cats
Publisher: Boston, Nichols & Hall

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enany day. They say, Mother, that the Indiansbelieve their dogs will go to heaven with them.Will they, Mother ? We know nothing of the future state ofanimals, Harry. We only know that they aremore gentle and intelligent the more kindwe are to them. The most savage animalsare tamed by constant kindness. Who doesnot remember Sir Walter Scotts pet pig?The reason why the pig was so fond of his 14 TRUE STORIES ABOUT DOGS AND CATS. • master was that Sir Walter had not treatedhim piggishly, but humanely. You have been told of Baron Trencks spider.Men have had pet lions and tigers. When Isee a fine, gentle horse, or an intelligent, lovingdog, I find myself repeating Miss Barrettsbeautiful words, — Be mv benediction said it With my hand upon thy head,Gentle fello\v-creature. Now I have a funny story for you of a dogand a hen which a friend told me that sheknew to be true. A small dog had a litter of puppies in abarn close by a hen who was sitting on her TRUE STORIES ABOUT DOGS AND CATS. 15
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eggs, waiting patiently, as hens do, for thetime when her chickens should pop their prettyheads out of their shells into this pleasantworld. 16 TRUE STORIES ABOUT DOGS AND CATS. The puppies, however, came first, and, assoon as they were born, she left her nest, andinsisted upon brooding them. The little dog, no doubt, thought her veryimpertinent, and barked at her, and tried todrive her away; but she would not go. Theyhad always been good friends, and the dog wasUnwilling to hurt her; and so Mrs. Dog, aftershowing, in every way, her desire to get rid ofher troublesome acquaintance, and finding that Madame Hen would not budge one inch, let =. her alone. From that time, the hen brooded the pup-pies. She let their mother suckle them, butthe rest of the time took charge of them. Thepoor dog mother felt cheated, but she went offand amused herself as well as she could. The poor chickens never showed their heads TRUE STORIES ABOUT DOGS AND CATS. 17 outside of their little oval pris

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