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The Animal Story Book

The Animal Story Book

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Edited by Andrew Lang, this book is an anthology of interesting stories about a wide variety of diffferent animals collected from numerous sources. - Summary by Elsie Selwyn


A Gazelle: Passages in the Life of a Tortoise by Alexandre Dumas; translated by Miss Blackley

A Rat Tale by Miss Evelyn Grieve

A Raven's Funeral by Mrs. Lang

A Strange Tiger by William Bingley

Beasts Besieged by Théophile Gautier

Builders and Weavers by Mrs. Lang

Bungey by Mr. Jesse

Cockatoo Stories

Cowper and His Hares by William Bingley

Dogs Over the Water by Mrs. Lang

Dolphins at Play by Pliny

Dolphins, Turtles, and Cod: Stories from Audubon by Robert Williams Buchanan

Eccentric Bird Builders by Mr. Jones

Fire-eating Djijam

Grateful Dogs by Mr. Bartells

Halcyons and Their Biographers by Mrs. Lang

‘Hame, Hame, Hame, Where I Fain Wad Be' by Mrs. Lang

How a Beaver Builds a House by William Bingley

How the Cayman Was Killed by Charles Waterton

Lions and Their Ways by William Bingley

Madame Théophile and the Parrot by Théophile Gautier

Monkey Stories by Mrs. Lang

Monkey Tricks and Sally at the Zoo

Monsieur Dumas and His Beasts (Chapters 1-3) by Mrs. Lang

Monsieur Dumas and His Beasts (Chapters 4-6) by Mrs. Lang

Monsieur Dumas and His Beasts (Chapters 7-9) by Mrs. Lang

More About Elephants by James Emerson Tennent

‘More Faithful than Favoured’ by Miss Eleanor Sellar

Mr. Bolt, the Scotch Terrier by Mr. Jesse

Mr. Gully by Miss Elspeth Campbell

Nests for Dinner by Mrs. Lang

Of the Linnet, Popinjay, or Parrot, and Other Birds That Can Speak by Mrs. Lang

Owls and Marmots & Eagles' Nests by Mrs. Lang

Patch and the Chickens by Miss A. M. Alleyne

Preface

Sai the Panther by John Claudius Loudon

Signora and Lori

Snake Stories by Mrs. Lang

Still Waters Run Deep; Or the Dancing Dog by Théophile Gautier

Stories About Ants by Mrs. Lang

Stories About Bears by Mrs. Lang

Stories About Lions by Mrs. Lang

Stories About Wolves by Mrs. Lang

Stories from Pliny: How Dogs Love by Pliny

The Adventures of Pyramus by Mrs. Lang

The Battle of the Mullets and the Dolphins by Mrs. Lang

The Buzzard and the Priest by William Bingley

The Capocier and His Mate by Mrs. Lang

The Dog of Montargis by Miss Eleanor Sellar

The Fierce Falcon by Charles St. John

The History of Jacko I by Alexandre Dumas; translated by Miss Blackley

The Otter Who Was Reared By a Cat

The Ship of the Desert by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt

The Starling of Segringen by Johann Peter Hebel; translated by Mr. Bartells

The Story of a Frog by Miss Blackley

The Story of a Weasel by William Bingley

The Story of Androcles and the Lion by Miss Eleanor Sellar

The Story of Fido by Miss A. M. Alleyne

The Story of the Dog Oscar by Miss A. M. Alleyne

The Strange History of Cagnotte by Théophile Gautier

The Taming of an Otter by William Bingley

The War Horse of Alexander by Plutarch

The Woodpecker Tapping on the Hollow Oak Tree by Mrs. Lang

Theo and His Horses; Jane, Betsy, and Blanche by Théophile Gautier

‘Tom’ an Adventure in the Life of a Bear In Paris by Alexandre Dumas; translated by Miss Blackley

Two Highland Dogs by Miss Goodrich Freer

What Elephants Can Do by Mrs. Lang