PUSSY and DOGGY TALES - 13 Children's Tales about Cats and Dogs E-Book

E. Nesbit

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

"Pussy and Doggy Tales" is a collection of 13 short stories for children about dogs and cats published by Edit Nesbit in 1899 – she who wrote “The Railway Children” and “Five Children and IT” amongst many others. The collection follows the lives and adventures of various cats and dogs which are further enhanced by 18 pen and ink illustrations by L. Kemp-Welch.

This charming children's collection will appeal to animal-loving children and would make for perfect bedtime reading. The tales include: "Too Clever by Half", "The White Persian", "A Powerful Friend", "A Silly Question", "The Selfish Pussy", "Meddlesome Pussy", "Nine Lives", "Tinker", "Rats!", "The Tables Turned", "A Noble Dog", "The Dyer's Dog", "The Vain Setter", etc. Other notable works by this author include: "The Prophet's Mantle" (1885), "Something Wrong" (1886), and "The Marden Mystery" (1896). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality eBook format.

Edith Nesbit (1858 - 1924) was a prolific and popular writer of children's literature, publishing more than 60 such books under the name E. Nesbit. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, which had a significant influence on the Labour Party and British politics in general.
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Leseprobe

Pussy and Doggy Tales

ByEdith Nesbit

Author of “The Railway Children”, “5 Children and It”, “Dragon’s Tales” etc.

WithIllustrationsbyL. Kemp-Welch

Originally Published ByJ. M. Dent & Co., London[1899]

Resurrected By

Abela Publishing, London

[2020]

Pussy and Doggy Tales

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2020

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs,wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2020

ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

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Contents

Pussy Tales

Too Clever by Half

The White Persian

A Powerful Friend

A Silly Question

The Selfish Pussy

Meddlesome Pussy

Nine Lives

Doggy Tales

Tinker

Rats!

The Tables Turned

A Noble Dog

The Dyer's Dog

The Vain Setter

List of Illustrations

"I may have no nose, old man, but I smell rats"

Nurse dried the poor, dear, cruelly-used kittens a little

She was very beautiful

I who superintended the writing of his letters

So much better to go to sleep in front of it

Now the back of a cow is the last place where you would look for a cat

"I don't believe a word of it"

I was picked up in the street by a child

The dog saw me off

Seeing the tea set out, I got on the table

Sitting up, and beginning to wash the kitten's face very hard indeed

The man's arm dragged through the window-pane, and Tinker hanging on to his fingers

It was a magnificent fight

He pulled her out some ten yards down the stream

Sat in the sun on the dyer's doorstep

I took the first prize

Pussy Tales

Too Clever by Half

"TELL us a story, mother," said the youngest kitten but three.

"You've heard all my stories," said the mother cat, sleepily turning over in the hay.

"Then make a new one," said the youngest kitten, so pertly that Mrs. Buff boxed her ears at once—but she laughed too. Did you ever hear a cat laugh? People say that cats often have occasion to do it.

"I do know one story," she said; "but I'm not sure that it's true, though it was told me by a most respectable brindled gentleman, a great friend of my dear mother's. He said he was a second cousin twenty-nine times removed of Mrs. Tabby White, the lady the story is about."

"Oh, do tell it," said all the kittens, sitting up very straight and looking at their mother with green anxious eyes.

"Very well," she said kindly; "only if you interrupt I shall leave off."

So there was silence in the barn, except for Mrs. Buff's voice and the soft sound of pleased purring which the kittens made as they listened to the enchanting tale.

"Mrs. Tabby White seems to have been as clever a cat as ever went rat-catching in a pair of soft-soled shoes. She always knew just where a mouse would peep out of the wainscot, and she had her soft-sharp paw on him before he had time to know that he was not alone in the room. She knew how to catch nice breakfasts for herself and her children, a trick I will teach you, my dears, when the spring comes; she used to lie quite quietly among the ivy on the wall, and then take the baby birds out of the nest when the grown-up birds had gone to the grub-shop. Mrs. Tabby White was very clever, as I said—so clever that presently she was not satisfied with being at the very top of the cat profession.

"'Cat-people have more sense than human people, of course,' she said to herself; 'but still there are some things one might learn from them. I must watch and see how they do things.'