The Story My Doggie Told to Me

by Ralph Henry Barbour

New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1914

Copyright, 1914,
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

TO GRETCHEN

in the hope that she will
read it to her children and that they
may profit by its lessons, this
book is dedicated by
her Master

CONTENTS

PART ONE [WHEN I WAS A PUPPY]
CHAPTER		PAGE
I	[Play Days]	3
II	[What We Learned]	11
III	[Puppy Troubles]	18
IV	[When I Ate My Collar]	25
V	[How I Dug for a Badger]	34
VI	[The Frog Who was a Toad]	43
VII	[The Cross Duck]	50
VIII	[The Old Lady Who Didn’t Like Dogs]	61
IX	[The Little Boy from the City]	69
PART TWO [WHEN I GREW UP]
I	[How We Went Hunting]	87
II	[How We Spent Christmas]	98
III	[More Lessons]	106
IV	[A Visit to Jack]	115
V	[The Turtle]	123
VI	[At the Dog Show]	130
VII	[The Strange Man]	143
VIII	[How I Was Stolen]	153
IX	[In the Animal Store]	162
X	[Back Home Again]	175

ILLUSTRATIONS

[We had some fine times together]	Frontispiece
[She used to think they were to chase]	Page	12
[... And thought now they were just tolook at]	”	13
[Most of the batter went on Freya]	Facing Page	14
[He had to help William do all sortsof things]	” ”	20
[We learned to stand on our hind legsand beg]	” ”	30
[He was what the Family called a “birddog”]	Page	42
[All of a sudden I backed right overthe side of the bank into the brook]	Facing Page	52
[I chewed that rubber cat until itstopped squeaking and then tried the duck]	Page	105
[I had never seen one before]	Facing Page	124
[At the dog show]	Page	142
[Alfred took me to bed with him]	Facing Page	146
[Jim]	Page	161
[Oh, it was a funny, queer place]	Facing Page	166
[He lives in the fourth tree]	” ”	178

PART ONE
WHEN I WAS A PUPPY