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The book is told from the standpoint of a poor household pet, a dog self-described by the first sentence of the story: "My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian." The story begins with a description of the dog's life as a puppy and her separation from her mother, which to her was inexplicable.
In variations of the story, a young girl or a nearsighted woman is left alone and is scared of a local killer. Her only companion is a pet dog, and she feels reassured during the night when the dog seemingly licks her hand. At some point, she discovers that the dog has either been killed or was never in the house with her.
A dog owner lets his shepherd dog starve from hunger, causing it to leave home. The dog meets a sparrow and accompanies it to the city. The bird captures meat and bread for the dog as a sign of gratitude. When they leave town, night falls, and they decide to go to sleep. During the night, a man in a horse carriage approaches the dog and sparrow.
A few years later, the story was retold in the second book of The Victorian Readers [3] widely available in Victorian schools for several decades, now with 'little dog dingo' and set in the Australian bush. Provides the imagery for the protagonist's fantasies in the Australian film Celia (1989), directed by Ann Turner. The telling differs ...
Children's literature portal; dogs portal; Harry the Dirty Dog is an American children's picture book written by Gene Zion and illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham.Originally published in black and white in 1956 by Harper and Row, it was reprinted in 2002 with splashes of color added by the original artist.
The real Beautiful Joe was an Airedale-type dog. He was medium-sized, brown, and described as likely being part bull terrier and part fox terrier. He was also described as a mongrel, a cur, and a mutt. He was originally owned by a local Meaford man, who cruelly abused the dog to the point of near death, and even cut off his ears and tail ...
The story was also made the subject of one of La Fontaine's Fables (Le loup et le chien, I.5), in which Master Wolf, on learning the forfeit necessary, "took to its heels and is running yet". [6] In modern times the text has been set for piano and high voice by the French composer Isabelle Aboulker .
Taking that for another dog carrying something better, it opens its mouth to attack the "other" and in doing so drops what it was carrying. An indication of how old and well-known this story was is given by an allusion to it in the work of the philosopher Democritus from the 5th century BCE. Discussing the foolish human desire for more, rather ...