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A Pet Reader

THE STORIES

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Kindness to Animals 7

Our Pets 9

Dogs and Puppies

A Little Dog 12

My Dog 13

Other Dogs 14

A True Dog Story 15

My Uncle’s Dog 16

A Little Doggy 17

Harriet and the Dog 18

Ben 19

Donald’s Pet Dog 21

A Brave Dog 23

Pal 24

“Doggy, You Must Promise” 25

A Queer Mother Dog 26

One Little Dog 28

Spot 29

A Loving Friend 30

The Dog and the Frog 31

The Story of a Dog and a Cat 33

The Dog’s Food 35

Kittens and Cats

Willing to Help 38

How My Kitten Plays 39

Ding Dong! 41

What Kittens Do 42

The Pussy Cat 44

The Kitten’s Food 45

Two Friends 47

The Kitten at Play 49

The Kitten and the Falling Leaves 50

Keeping Clean 51

The Cat and the Rat 52

The Ways of a Cat 53

The Cat and the Dog 54

Hens and Chickens

How to Get Breakfast 56

Our Chickens 57

The Clucking Hen 59

My Pet Hen 60

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo 61

Grandmother’s Chickens 62

A Queer Hen 65

Canary Birds

Sing, Little Bird 68

Buttercup 69

How We Care for Our Canary 71

The Little Bird 72

The Bird’s Bath 73

Cleaning the Canary’s Cage 74

My Grandmother’s Canary 76

Wild Birds

Bird Trades 78

Mother Robin 79

The Bird with a Broken Wing 81

The Sparrow 83

A Bird House 84

The Woodpecker’s Nest 85

The Building of the Nest 87

How We Help the Birds 88

Carrier Pigeons 90

The Pigeons 91

The Swallow 92

A Song 92

More Feathered Pets

Why Some Birds Hop and Others Walk 94

Ducks on A Farm 95

Quack, Quack 96

Polly 97

Doves 100

The Turtle Doves’ Nest 101

Our Dove 102

A Turkey Story 103

The Turkey Gobbler 104

Horses and Ponies

Dobbin 106

A Gentle Horse 107

Horses 109

My Pony 111

My Cousin’s Pony 112

Jean’s Riding Horse 114

“A Farmer Went Trotting” 116

Rabbits

The Rabbits 118

Rabbits 119

Little Bunnies 121

My Soldier Rabbits 122

Squirrels

The Squirrels and the Gun 126

Some Squirrels I Watched 127

Eating Nuts 129

The Lost Nut 131

The Squirrel’s Arithmetic 133

Whisky Frisky 134

Other Pets

Come, My Children 136

A Pet Goat 137

The Sheep 139

Mary’s Lamb 140

The Cow 142

In the Meadow 143

My Father’s Fox 144

The Little Foxes 145

Our Monkey 146

The Monkey and the Hand-Organ Man 147

The Monkey Man 149

Our White Mice 150

A Little Mouse 151

My Uncle’s White Mice 152

The Mice 153

The Two Gold Fishes 154

Aunt Minnie’s Gold Fish 156

Where the Stream Runs Blue 158

Frogs at School 159

About the Book 160

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