This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...has made her yellow and white, ' said Mrs. Martin, 'suffrage colors. Give me a yellow and white one, please.' "How often in the Bronx had I admired proud, rich dogs trotting by our cottage with handsome collars on and things dangling from them! True, mine was very uncomfortable, but what did that matter? I was 'dressed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...has made her yellow and white, ' said Mrs. Martin, 'suffrage colors. Give me a yellow and white one, please.' "How often in the Bronx had I admired proud, rich dogs trotting by our cottage with handsome collars on and things dangling from them! True, mine was very uncomfortable, but what did that matter? I was 'dressed to kill, ' as Angelina used to say when her friends got new blue or green dresses. Oh, if she and the children could only see me now! "I held my head up, walked high and pricked my ears as we went down the street, being often gratified by remarks from passing ladies and children, 'What a stylish dog! What a pretty creature! What a clean little fox-terrier!' "When we got back to the hotel the ladies sitting knitting on the veranda called out, 'Why, Mrs. Martin--where did you get that dog?' "She smiled and told them about the night before, and one dear old lady, when she finished said, 'I believe my grandchildren would like to have it.' "My ears went down like a spaniel's, and I pressed myself against Mrs. Martin's dress. I had suffered much from the hands of children that I loved. How could I let myself be mauled by children that I did not love? "Mrs., Martin heard me moaning, and gave me a. sympathetic look, but said nothing. "How I tried to please her the next few days! I ate nicely and not greedily, and if she went out of the room I left my choicest big beef bone to follow her. If we were out walking I kept closely at her heels and did not speak to a single dog we met. If she put me In her room and said she was going to see her sick sister, I wagged my tail and tried to look cheerful. "The day after she found me I had discovered that Mrs. Martin was far away from her own home and she had come to New Roc...
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