: Dogtown Being Some Chapters from the Annals of the Waddles Family Set Down in the Language of Housepeople by Wright Mabel Osgood - Dogs Juvenile fiction

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MRS. WADDLES 1 AUNT PRUE AND THE CAT BASKET 8 WADDLES GREETING AUNT PRUE 12 ANNE AND FOX 30 HAMLET BEGGING 43 HAMLET READING 46 MR. HUGH'S HORSE 54 "HIS HEAVY CURLS WERE A MAT OF MUD AND BURRS" 58 "THE MAIL BAG SWINGING FROM ITS GALLOWS" 64 LILY 68 THE GAME OF SNATCH BONE 71 WADDLES DETHRONED 74 LUMBERLEGS 81 WADDLES SNIFFING THE MORNING AIR 90 WHEN WADDLES WAS ILL 100 JACK AND JILL WADDLES 104 CURIOSITY 115 WRESTLING 121 "JACK WATCHED HER OUT OF THE CORNER OF ONE EYE" 127 JACK WADDLES 129 THE JAY AT BREAKFAST 154 AN OWL BABY 156 MAMMA OWL 160 THE DAYTIME PERCH 165 "BUTTER'S COME!" 178 "THEY WERE HERALDED BY MUCH CREAKING OF WHEELS" 185 WADDLES FINDS THE CAKE BASKET 199 A HEN PARTY 201 AT THE CROSS-ROADS 220 THE CHICKEN COOP 227 THE HERB WITCH'S HOME 228 "ALSO GEESE THAT MAKE GOOD GUIDE-POSTS" 246 THE KENNEL YARD 256 A BOARDER 258 THE PUPPIES' BATH-TUB 262 IN THE KENNEL KITCHEN 263 MARTIN BAKING BREAD 266 READY FOR TRAVEL 268 FLO POINTING 281 SILVER-TONGUE 296 HAPPY AT HOME 307 BIG BROTHER 309 IN MISCHIEF 312 LEAP-FROG 322 OUT OF SCHOOL 324 "DRINK, PUPPY, DRINK!" 330 WATCHING OUT 335 QUICK 338 COLIN 344 "A GREAT OWL WITH A SMOOTH ROUND HEAD" 383 THE BRIDE 401 "TOMMY SHOUTED 'ME!'" 402 "HE SUCCEEDED IN SITTING UPRIGHT" 404 "TIP MOUNTED GUARD UNTIL NIGHT CAME" 405

DOGTOWN

ENTER MRS. WADDLES

Happy sat by the watering-trough, waiting for Baldy to come for the milking pails and go for the cows.

Waddles, lying on the sunny side of the lilac hedge, was also waiting for this important evening happening; and though nothing in his appearance told that he was on the watch, for his back was toward the barn, yet he would know when Baldy crossed the yard to wash his hands at the pump, gauge the time he took to reach the house, and, without hurrying or looking round, be at his side the moment that the clashing of tin told that he had really come for the pails.

Seated on the stone wall, Anne and Miss Letty were also waiting, partly for Baldy, but chiefly to hear the evening music that would soon come from the wooded field edge and near-by garden, for it was a lovely May afternoon. In the morning there had been a warm rain that made worm pulling and bug hunting a pleasure instead of labour for the birds, and the air was full of scraps of song.

You have not met Happy before, or Miss Letty either. Happy was a beagle hound, with long, tan-coloured ears, the daintiest bit of a nose, a plump body marked and ticked with tan and black, and eyes of such beseeching softness that if she but looked at you when you were eating, you were impelled to give her the very last morsel, no matter what your hunger might be.

Her legal name and pedigree was recorded in the Westminster Kennel Club register as "Cadence out of Melody, by Flute, breeder J. Sanford, Hilltop Kennels," and really for two years of her life she had been merely a kennel dog. Now she was a lady of distinction, a real person beloved of Anne, Happy, of Happy Hall, mother of twin pups, Jack and Jill, and wife of no less honourable a person than Waddles, who, now past middle age, portly and sedate, was Mayor of Dogtown and an undisputed authority on all matters of dog law and etiquette.

If you should look for Dogtown on the map of the county where Happy Hall, Anne's home, is located, you would not find it, for it is really concealed under the pretty name of Woodlands, and was discovered quite by accident by Anne's Aunt Prue.

Now Aunt Prue was one of those ladies who prefer indoors to outdoors, and cats to dogs. The "Fireside Sphinx" has many virtues, and its rights should be respected, only it is a very strange thing that people who love cats cannot seem to fully appreciate dogs, which of course are the superior animals.

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