CONTENTS

1The Arrival of Raggety[13]
2Raggety Chooses[19]
3Raggety’s Education[22]
4His Love of Travel[25]
5How Raggety Proved Himself a Real Dog[28]
6How He “Borned His Baby”[32]
7How Raggety Met His Lovely Lady[35]
8His Devotion to His Lovely Lady[38]
9How Raggety Bit The Great Man and How He Then Apologized[41]
10Raggety’s Ears[45]
11Raggety’s Tail[49]
12His Athletic Interests[51]
13Raggety’s Love Affairs[55]
14Raggety’s Friendships[58]
15Raggety and The Dear Man Who Passed[61]
16Me and Jeems[63]
17What The Lovely Lady Says[67]
18Raggety Trots Out of His Book[71]

RAGGETY IS A REAL DOG

To begin with, he is a really truly dog; not a dog in a picture, not a dog in a story, not a dog in a book, but a real dog. One that would come up and lick your hand with his warm little tongue if you spoke to him, and would jump up and down and wiggle all over if you asked him to go for a walk.

THE MINTIE

Once I was walking in the Fields of the Earth[A] and there I met a Mintie, with a head on before and a tail on behind, and inside the Mintie there lived a Growl. Now the Growl had neither head, body, nor legs, but it lived inside of the Mintie.