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Pussy and Doggy Tales by Edith Nesbit, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy & Magic, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Paperback
AnimalsGeneral Juvenile Fiction
ISBN13: 9781463801274
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: Jun 1 2011
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
My name is Stumps, and my mistress is rather a nice little girl; but she has her faults, like most people. I myself, as it happens, am wonderfully free from faults. Among my mistress's faults is what I may call a lack of dignity, joined to a desire to make other people undignified too.
You will hardly believe that, before I had belonged to her a month, she had made me learn to dance and to jump. I am a very respectable dachshund, of cobby build, and jumping is the very last exercise I should have taken to of my own accord. But when Miss Daisy said, Now jump, Stumps; there's a darling! and held out her little arms, I could not well refuse. For, after all, the child is my mistress.
I never could understand why the cat was not taught to dance . . .
That's the start to Tinker, Nesbit's first Doggy Tale. Included in this tome of pets -- Too Clever by Half, The White Persian, A Powerful Friend, A Silly Question, The Selfish Pussy, Meddlesome Pussy, and Nine Lives. Besides Tinker, there are only five other tales about dogs, Rats!, The Tables Turned, A Noble Dog, The Dyer's Dog, and The Vain Setter. No fair! We're dog people, ourselves. Less cats! More dogs!
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