A Pet Reader
by
EDITH WILHELMINA LAWSON, A.B.
Primary Teacher, Rockford (Ill.) Public Schools Author of Better Health for Little Americans
Illustrated by Ludwig and Regina and Leone Schwem
BECKLEY-CARDY COMPANY CHICAGO
Copyright, 1926 By Beckley-Cardy Company All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Little children, never give
Pain to things that feel and live.
Let the gentle robin come
For the crumbs you save at home.
As his meat you throw along,
He’ll repay you with a song.
Edith Wilhelmina Lawson
A PET READER
THE STORIES
Kindness to Animals
Our Pets
A Little Dog
My Dog
Other Dogs
A True Dog Story
My Uncle’s Dog
A Little Doggy
Harriet and the Dog
Ben
Donald’s Pet Dog
A Brave Dog
Pal
“Doggy, You Must Promise”
A Queer Mother Dog
One Little Dog
Spot
A Loving Friend
The Dog and the Frog
The Story of a Dog and a Cat
The Dog’s Food
Willing to Help
How My Kitten Plays
Ding Dong!
What Kittens Do
The Pussy Cat
The Kitten’s Food
Two Friends
The Kitten at Play
The Kitten and the Falling Leaves
Keeping Clean
The Cat and the Rat
The Ways of a Cat
The Cat and the Dog
How to Get Breakfast
Our Chickens
The Clucking Hen
My Pet Hen
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo
Grandmother’s Chickens
A Queer Hen
Sing, Little Bird
Buttercup
How We Care for Our Canary
The Little Bird
The Bird’s Bath
Cleaning the Canary’s Cage
My Grandmother’s Canary
Bird Trades
Mother Robin
The Bird with a Broken Wing
The Sparrow
A Bird House
The Woodpecker’s Nest
The Building of the Nest
How We Help the Birds
Carrier Pigeons
The Pigeons
The Swallow
A Song
Why Some Birds Hop and Others Walk
Ducks on a Farm
Quack, Quack
Polly
Doves
The Turtle Doves’ Nest
Our Dove
A Turkey Story
The Turkey Gobbler
Dobbin
A Gentle Horse
Horses
My Pony
My Cousin’s Pony
Jean’s Riding Horse
“A Farmer Went Trotting”
The Rabbits
Rabbits
Little Bunnies
My Soldier Rabbits
The Squirrels and the Gun
Some Squirrels I Watched
Eating Nuts
The Lost Nut
The Squirrel’s Arithmetic
Whisky Frisky
Come, My Children
A Pet Goat
The Sheep
Mary’s Lamb
The Cow
In the Meadow
My Father’s Fox
The Little Foxes
Our Monkey
The Monkey and the Hand-Organ Man
The Monkey Man
Our White Mice
A Little Mouse
My Uncle’s White Mice
The Mice
The Two Gold Fishes
Aunt Minnie’s Gold Fish
Where the Stream Runs Blue
Frogs at School
About the Book
