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Live Toys Or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets
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Title: Live Toys
Or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets
Author: Emma Davenport
Release Date: June 14, 2013 [eBook #42946]
Language: English
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BLUEBEARD, THE SHETLAND PONY.
Page 85.
LIVE TOYS;
OR
ANECDOTES OF OUR FOUR-LEGGED AND OTHER PETS.
BY
EMMA DAVENPORT,
AUTHORESS OF
"JAMIE'S QUESTIONS," "WEAK AND WILFUL," ETC.
With Illustrations by Harrison Weir.
LONDON:
GRIFFITH AND FARRAN,
(SUCCESSORS TO NEWBERY AND HARRIS,)
CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.
M DCCC LXII.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WERTHEIMER AND CO.,
CIRCUS PLACE, FINSBURY.
TO
LADY NEPEAN,
THIS
LITTLE VOLUME IS DEDICATED,
AS
CONTAINING TRUE ANECDOTES OF THE VARIOUS ANIMALS
THAT WERE IN THE POSSESSION OF A LITTLE BOY
AND GIRL, IN WHOM SHE HAS ALWAYS
SHEWN A KIND INTEREST.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Moppy, the White Rabbit | 1 |
| The Two Birds, Goldie and Brownie | 4 |
| Poll Parrot | 10 |
| Neddy and the Rifle Donkey | 19 |
| Bunny, the Wild Rabbit | 31 |
| The Jackdaw | 38 |
| Pricker, the Hedgehog | 50 |
| Drake, the Retriever | 55 |
| Tawney, the Terrier | 60 |
| Puffer, the Pigeon | 70 |
| Dr. Battius, the Bat | 75 |
| The Chough | 80 |
| The Kittens, Blacky and Snowdrop | 83 |
| Bluebeard, the Shetland Pony | 85 |
| Joe, the German Dog | 96 |
LIVE TOYS;
OR
ANECDOTES OF OUR FOUR-LEGGED AND OTHER PETS.
MOPPY, THE WHITE RABBIT.
The first Pet that we ever remember possessing was a large white rabbit. We were then very little children; and, being at the sea-side, we spent the greater part of the day on the shore, or rather on the broad esplanade, that stretched for full half-a-mile round the pretty bay. When we were quite tired of running there, or of picking up stones and weeds on the shingle below the esplanade wall, we were enabled to prolong our stay out of doors by means of the pretty little goat-carriages that were kept in readiness on the esplanade. Some of them were made with two seats; some were drawn by one goat, and some with two. There were reins and regular harness to these little goats, and we were indeed pleased, when our nurse allowed us to drive in one of the double-seated carriages. We took turns to sit in front and drive, and we tried hard to persuade our Mamma to let us have a goat, and a goat-carriage for ourselves. What a nice Pet that would have been! But Mamma said she could not take it about, as we travelled much, and also that a goat would butt at us and knock us down. Therefore we were obliged to be content with patting and coaxing the goats on the walk.
During one of our drives in the goat-carriage, we met with a boy carrying a beautiful white creature with pink eyes; "Look! look! nurse," we cried, "what is that?" "It is a rabbit," she said, "would you like to stroke it?" and