Dogs and puppies (1908) (14803657583)

Identifier: dogspuppies00mont (find matches)
Title: Dogs and puppies
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Montgomery, Frances Trego Hofsten, Hugo von, ill
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Publisher: New York : Barse & Hopkins
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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tly natural for any puppy 15 Dogs and Puppies to do. It is a dogs nature to chew, especiallywhen she is cutting a lot of little pearly teeth,and how was she to know the difference betweenthe leg of a kitchen chair that cost sixty cents anda carved mahogany that cost ninety dollars? Then again, she was expected to play withthings that were dragged on to the floor in frontof her, and the people laughed when she hungon and shook her head like a full grown bull-dog,and would not let go even when lifted off herfeet. Then why was she slapped and scoldedwhen she jumped on her mistress long trailingblue silk gown and tore the lace when it caughtin her claws? Oh dear, what have I done now? and sheran under the sofa to hide from the hard-heartedand harder handed French maid. Her mistress only played with her for a fewminutes at a time, when she fed her candy andother things that tasted good but always madeher sick afterward. And just when she hadcramps until she was most dead and was shiver- 16
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IF A DOGS LIFE EVER FELL IN A PLEASANT PLACE, THIS LITTLE PUPPIES SURELY DID. Dogs and Puppies ing with the cold, she would be picked up,slapped and put out of doors, until the poorlittle puppy thought that all there was in theworld was cross French maids and slaps, withnever a friendly dog to talk to from one weeksend to another. One day, however, a little boy came to visitthe lady, and Pretty had the time of her life.My! such fun I Upstairs, downstairs, undertables, over chairs! And when finally, the littleboy had gone, and Pretty, so hot and tired shecould scarcely stand, was crawling away to afavorite nook in the hall, the French maid stum-bled over her. My! such a temper! Poor Prettywas cuffed and thrown out of doors before shecould think what had happened. Dear little Pretty! The world seemed a hardone that night, with that cold wind making herhuddle up under the porch. No wonder that thenext day the French maid called her one stupe-ed dog, and that on the next after that Pretty