Rab and His FriendsI was bitten severely by a little dog when with my mother at Moffat Wells, being then three years of age, and I have remained "bitten" ever since in the matter of dogs. I remember that little dog... and were I allowed to search among the shades in the cynic Elysian fields, I could pick her out still.-from "Our Dogs"The 1858 short story "Rab and His Friends"-based on a true incident about a gray mastiff, Rab, and his relationship with an Edinburgh doctor and one of the doctor's patients-is considered one of the finest examples of Victorian melodrama. It is also beautifully portrays the extraordinary insight author John Brown had into the canine temperament; it and other essays included here on Brown's life with the faithful animals will enchant dog lovers. Also featured in this volume: Brown's renowned 1863 sketch, "Marjorie Fleming."Scottish physician and writer John Brown (1810-1882) is best known for his two volumes of essays, Horae Subsecivae (Leisure Hours) (1858, 1861). |
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MARJOR1E FLEMING | 47 |
THE MYSTERY OF BLACK AND TAN | 109 |
HER LAST HALFCROWN | 131 |
QUEEN MARYS CHILDGARDEN | 189 |
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第 9 頁 - ... brutes;' it is a crowd annular, compact, and mobile ; a crowd centripetal, having its eyes and its heads all bent downwards and inwards, to one common focus. Well, Bob and I are up, and find it is not over : a small thoroughbred, white bull-terrier, is busy throttling a large shepherd's dog, unaccustomed to war, but not to be trifled with. They are hard at it ; the scientific little fellow doing his work in great style, his pastoral enemy fighting wildly, but with the sharpest of teeth and a...
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| 書名 | Rab and His Friends Project Gutenberg第 5420 卷 Rab and His Friends: And Other Sketches第 4 期 |
| 作者 | John Brown |
| 出版者 | Cosimo, Inc., 2005 |
| ISBN | 1596056657, 9781596056657 |
| 頁數 | 208 頁 |
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