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Title: My Father's Dragon

Author: Ruth Stiles Gannett

Illustrator: Ruth Chrisman Gannett

Release Date: September 18, 2009 [EBook #30017]

Language: English

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MY FATHER'S DRAGON

STORY BY

RUTH STILES GANNETT

ILLUSTRATIONS BY

RUTH CHRISMAN GANNETT

RANDOM HOUSE . NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT 1948 BY RANDOM HOUSE, INC.

* * * * *

For My

FATHER

* * * * *

CONTENTS

1. My Father Meets the Cat 9

2. My Father Runs Away 15

3. My Father Finds the Island 22

4. My Father Finds the River 31

5. My Father Meets Some Tigers 39

6. My Father Meets A Rhinoceros 48

7. My Father Meets A Lion 56

8. My Father Meets A Gorilla 63

9. My Father Makes A Bridge 73

10. My Father Finds the Dragon 79

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_Chapter One_

MY FATHER MEETS THE CAT

One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old
alley cat on his street. The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so
my father said, "Wouldn't you like to come home with me?"

This surprised the cat--she had never before met anyone who cared
about old alley cats--but she said, "I'd be very much obliged if I
could sit by a warm furnace, and perhaps have a saucer of milk."

"We have a very nice furnace to sit by," said my father, "and I'm sure
my mother has an extra saucer of milk."

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