Real Tales of Real Dogs

Description

This enchanting book tells the stories of twenty-four different dogs and is accompanied by many beautiful etchings done by Diana Thorne. The contents include: Aeroplane, the Dog who Turned Wolf; Satan, the War Dog; Abdul Hamid, the Dog who Was Not; A Nameless Mongrel, who Repaid a Kindness; Flash, Pointing a Mile-Distant Pheasant; Wotan, the Police Dog who Fought a Leopard; Roger, the Church-Going Bloodhound; Grip, the Eighteenth Century Canine Thief; Halil, the Saluki Hero of a Strange Contest; Wolf, Our Great Little Collie; Vigi, the Hero Dog of the Vikings; Mafeking, a War Dog of South Africa; Wallace, Glasgow's Immortal Fire Dog; Bobbie, the Three-Thousand-Mile Collie; Sport, A Battle with Wolves for a Baby's Life; Karroo, the Terrier Named for a Desert; Lory the Lurid, a Right Disreputable Dog; Rex, Missing for Six Weeks; Gengisk, the Dog Who Saved a King; Fang, the Seventeenth Century Dog Detective; Pegeen, the Dog who Learned to Reason; Trick, a Lurcher with a Queer History; Hector, the Mischief Dog; and Paddy, a Mongrel, but a Great Little Dog.