Beautiful Joe
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Saunders Marshall. Beautiful Joe
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I ONLY A CUR
CHAPTER II THE CRUEL MILKMAN
CHAPTER III. MY KIND DELIVERER AND MISS LAURA
CHAPTER IV THE MORRIS BOYS ADD TO MY NAME
CHAPTER V MY NEW HOME AND A SELFISH LADY
CHAPTER VI THE FOX TERRIER BILLY
CHAPTER VII TRAINING A PUPPY
CHAPTER VIII A RUINED DOG
CHAPTER IX THE PARROT BELLA
CHAPTER X BILLY’S TRAINING CONTINUED
CHAPTER XI GOLDFISH AND CANARIES
CHAPTER XII MALTA THE CAT
CHAPTER XIII THE BEGINNING OF AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XIV HOW WE CAUGHT THE BURGLAR
CHAPTER XV OUR JOURNEY TO RIVERDALE
CHAPTER XVI DINGLEY FARM
CHAPTER XVII MR. WOOD AND HIS HORSES
CHAPTER XVIII MRS. WOOD’S POULTRY
CHAPTER XIX A BAND OF MERCY
CHAPTER XX STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS
CHAPTER XXI MR. MAXWELL AND MR. HARRY
CHAPTER XXII WHAT HAPPENED AT THE TEA TABLE
CHAPTER XXIII TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS
CHAPTER XXIV THE RABBIT AND THE HEN
CHAPTER XXV A HAPPY HORSE
CHAPTER XXVI THE BOX OF MONEY
CHAPTER XXVII A NEGLECTED STABLE
CHAPTER XXVIII THE END OF THE ENGLISHMAN
CHAPTER XXIX A TALK ABOUT SHEEP
CHAPTER XXX A JEALOUS OX
CHAPTER XXXI IN THE COW STABLE
CHAPTER XXXII OUR RETURN HOME
CHAPTER XXXIII PERFORMING ANIMALS
CHAPTER XXXIV A FIRE IN FAIRPORT
CHAPTER XXXV BILLY AND THE ITALIAN
CHAPTER XXXVI DANDY THE TRAMP
CHAPTER XXXVII THE END OF MY STORY
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The wonderfully successful book, entitled “Black Beauty,” came like a living voice out of the animal kingdom. But it spake for the horse, and made other books necessary; it led the way. After the ready welcome that it received, and the good it has accomplished and is doing, it follows naturally that some one should be inspired to write a book to interpret the life of a dog to the humane feeling of the world. Such a story we have in “Beautiful Joe.”
The story speaks not for the dog alone, but for the whole animal kingdom. Through it we enter the animal world, and are made to see as animals see, and to feel as animals feel. The sympathetic sight of the author, in this interpretation, is ethically the strong feature of the book.
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Mrs. Montague looked at me more kindly, and even held out the tips of her fingers to me. I did not lick them. I only smelled them, and she drew her hand back again.
“You have never been brought in contact with the lower creation as I have,” said Mrs. Morris; “just let me tell you, in a few words, what a help dumb animals have been to me in the up-bringing of my children my boys, especially. When I was a young married woman, going about the slums of New York with my husband, I used to come home and look at my two babies as they lay in their little cots, and say to him, ‘What are we going to do to keep these children from selfishness the curse of the world?’
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