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Beautiful Joe's Paradise; Or, the Island of Brotherly Love
Beautiful Joe's Paradise Or the Island of Brotherly Love Author:Marshall Saunders General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: L. C. Page Subjects: Dogs, Legends and stories of Dogs Youth Conduct of life Youth and death Paradise Animal welfare Animals Human-animal relationships Cruelty Kindness Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Dogs Nature / Animal ... more »Rights Pets / Dogs / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. THE BEAUTIFUL ISLAND The Cat sprang out first, the monkeys followed, Rag bounded after them, and I came last. " Me-ow, me-ow," said something close to my ankles, " don't you know me, Master Sam ? " I fell back a step. There was a thick fringe of animals round the hillock, -- two elephants, goats, a camel or two, dogs, a royal Bengal tiger, cows, sheep, horses, hens, rats, mice, rabbits, weasels, and a lot of other animals sandwiched in between them. They were nearly all motionless, and it flashed into my mind that it was etiquette for them all to stand still, except those animals who recognised friends on the air-ship. This cat that pressed forward was an Angora kitten that my mother had lost from poison a month before. " Oh, Rag, I'm glad to see you," she murmured, purring round him, and arching her back, with her tail held aloft, and looking as big as ten tails 42 .7) oc' 6 She was a daisy of a cat -- pure white, longhaired, and blue-eyed. " Why, puss, I'm happy to find you here," I said, and really it seemed just like meeting an old friend. " Oh, you nice boy," she said, and she sprang on my shoulder, and ran her nutmeg-grater of a tongue over my face, till I laughed and put her down. Then I just gazed at the other animals, and Rag gazed too. " Ton my word, master," he said, in a queer way, " there'...« less