Little Dog Ready: How He Lost Himself in the Big World

Out ran the chipmunks
How He Lost Himself in the Big World
by MABEL F. STRYKER
With Illustrations by HUGH SPENCER
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1923
COPYRIGHT, 1923 BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
September, 1923
PRINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO ALL CHILDREN AND GROWN-UPS WHO LOVE DOGS
He was a little black and white dog with a shaggy coat and a waggy tail. He had very polite eyes which were always watching people to find out what they would like to have him do. Whenever people were kind enough to tell him what they wanted, he would always do it for them if he possibly could, and that is why he was named “Ready.”
Ready loved his little master Dick more than any one in the world, and Dick never wanted Ready out of his sight; and that is how this story came about.
It was a very sad day for Dick and Ready when Dick fell from the apple tree and broke his arm. Have you ever broken your arm? If you have, you know how much it hurts, and how still you have to be. Even then the pain won’t go away. Of course Dick wanted Ready with him every single minute of the day and night.