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Title: Dick and His Cat and Other Tales

Author: Various

Editor: Edith Carrington

Illustrator: F. M. Cooper

Release Date: March 18, 2009 [EBook #28351]

Language: English

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ANIMAL LIFE READERS

EDITED BY
EDITH CARRINGTON AND ERNEST BELL

WITH PICTURES BY
HARRISON WEIR
AND OTHERS

DICK AND HIS CAT
AND OTHER TALES

[Illustration]

DICK AND HIS CAT
AND OTHER TALES

ADAPTED BY
EDITH CARRINGTON

AUTHOR OF "WORKERS WITHOUT WAGE," "A NARROW, NARROW WORLD,"
"A STORY OF WINGS," ETC., ETC.

_WITH PICTURES BY F. M. COOPER_

LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1895

_This Series is published by Messrs. Bell for the Humanitarian League._

CONTENTS.

PAGE

DICK AND HIS CAT 1

TRUSTY. By Roger Quiddam 29

OUT IN THE COLD. By Roger Quiddam 50

THE STORY OF A FLY. By Maria Jacob 67

BETTY AND SNOWDROP 106

PREFACE.

In the Section of the Code for 1894-5, dealing with Reading Books,
occur the words "Passages impressing on the children the duty of
gentleness and consideration for others, and that of the humane
treatment of animals may also be widely introduced."

It is in the hope of encouraging that humane treatment of animals,
which in the hands of a sympathetic teacher may so easily and naturally
be made the first step towards the "gentleness and consideration for
others," that this series has been prepared. It is hoped now that the
teaching of humanity has received official recognition, that those who
have charge of the young will recognize its importance, and will
realise that unless the cultivation of th