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Famous Pets of Famous People · Eleanor Lewis — chapter 4 of 30 · ~166 words · public domain

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Fragment 147

Hens and chickens 147

Two of Gottfried Mind’s cats 148

The Cavalier’s pets 149

The dustman’s dog 151

Countess, the sleeping bloodhound 151

The critics 152

Paul Pry, a member of the Humane Society 153

An old monarch 155

Wasp, Rosa Bonheur’s pet terrier 157

The horse fair 158

The lion at home 159

Glen and his master at Etretât 160

Glen 161

Mr. Chase and Kat-te 162

Lilla, Cruikshank’s little dog 163

Lady Tankerville, who hid her kittens in the head of Story’s statue of Peabody 165

Entrance and window of the sculptor Ezekiel’s studio in Rome 168

Bimbo, one of the sculptor Story’s pets 169

Cat-headed Egyptian goddess, Bast or Bubastis 174

Bas-relief of Whittington and his cat 175

Cardinal Richelieu, front face and sides 179

The two-legged cat that belonged to Dr. Hill of Princeton College 183

Sally 193

Cowper’s tame hares 199

Helix Desertorum 204

Bobby, the dog who would be a soldier 211

The deer that marched ahead 220

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