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A Pet Reader

Chapter 2: THE STORIES
By Edith Wilhelmina Lawson
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Aimed at beginning readers, this collection presents short poems and simple prose about household and farm animals, including dogs, cats, birds, poultry, horses, rabbits, and small pets. Brief anecdotes, descriptive pieces, and rhymes portray everyday pet behavior, care tasks, and gentle moral lessons about kindness and responsibility toward animals. Sections group similar creatures and alternate playful vignettes with practical tips for feeding, housing, and helping wildlife. Illustrative scenes and accessible language support early reading and introduce empathy for animals.

THE STORIES

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