Part 2

IX.

MILITARY PETS 209

ANIMALS AT SCHOOL 231

XI.

A MENAGERIE IN STONE 247

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Miss Maud Howe and her dog Sambo Frontis.

Statue of Sir Walter Scott, in Edinburgh 17

Sir Walter Scott and his bull-terrier, Camp 21

Rab 25

“Baby Rab” 26

“Pity the sorrows of us homeless dogs” 27

Dr. John Brown, Dr. Peddie, and Dandie 28

Drinking-fountain monument to Greyfriars’ Bobby, Edinburgh 29

Greyfriars’ Bobby 31

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe at home 38

Mrs. Stowe’s dog Punch 40

Mrs. Stowe’s dog Missy 41

Mrs. Phelps’s dog Daniel Deronda 42

Mrs. Jane Welsh Carlyle and Nero 45

Lord Byron and his dog Lyon 56

Sir Horace Walpole and Patapan 59

Charles Dickens’s pet raven, Grip 62

Bushie, the favorite dog of Charlotte Cushman 66

Mouche, Victor Hugo’s cat 68

General Muff, Miss Mary L. Booth’s cat 69

Nelly, the dog of Edmund Yates 71

Frederick the Great and his sister Wilhelmina 78