Zip, the Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier

The Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier by
Author of BILLY WHISKERS
Illustrated by Violet Moore Higgins
The Saalfield Publishing Company Chicago Akron, Ohio New York
Copyright, 1917 By The Saalfield Publishing Company
This story appeared serially in the Detroit News Tribune

The Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier
In Which Zip Is Introduced to the Reader
Zip belongs to Dr. Elsworth, who lives in the big, white house with the green blinds on the edge of the village of Maplewood. And at the present minute he is asleep on the front porch on a soft cushion in an old-fashioned rocking-chair that is swaying gently to and fro, dreaming of the days when he was a puppy chasing the white spot on the end of his tail, thinking it was something following him. And how he would bark at it and run around and around after it until he was so dizzy he would fall over! Then when the ground stopped spinning round, he would get up and go after it again, barking all the time for it to stop following him. Silly little puppy that he was, not to know it was his own tail he was chasing! Often he would bark so loudly in his sleep that it would awaken him, but he would soon fall asleep again and go on dreaming. Sometimes he would be chasing cows, holding on to their long tails; at others, squawking, cackling chickens or anything else that happened to be in the road.