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Title: Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs

Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Release Date: December 29, 2006 [EBook #20213]

Language: English

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Peace on Earth,

Good-Will to Dogs

By

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Author of "Old Dad"

New York

E. P. Dutton & Company

681 Fifth Avenue

COPYRIGHT, 1920,

BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

_First printing October, 1920_

_Second printing October, 1920_

_Third printing October, 1920_

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CONTENTS

Part I

Part II

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PEACE ON EARTH GOOD WILL TO DOGS

PART I

If you don't like Christmas stories, don't read this one!

And if you don't like dogs I don't know just what to advise you to do!

For I warn you perfectly frankly that I am distinctly pro-dog and
distinctly pro-Christmas, and would like to bring to this little story
whatever whiff of fir-balsam I can cajole from the make-believe forest
in my typewriter, and every glitter of tinsel, smudge of toy candle,
crackle of wrapping paper, that my particular brand of brain and ink
can conjure up on a single keyboard! And very large-sized dogs shall
romp through every page! And the mercury shiver perpetually in the
vicinity of zero! And every foot of earth be crusty-brown and bare
with no white snow at all till the very last moment when you'd just
about given up hope! And all the heart of the story is very,--oh
_very_ young!

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