I enjoy the great Round world very much indeed, and wish the dreadful war with Cuba would stop; but I do not want the Cubans to give up; it is just like the Revolutionary War with us; we did not give up, and I hope Cuba won’t.

I have a little black and tan dog, and call him Jack.  He is very cunning indeed, he has a hard rubber ball he plays with.  There also is another black and tan dog in the house whose name is Gipsy; she, also, is very cunning.

I remain your affectionate reader,
Helen A.S. 
New York, march 20, 1897.

Many thanks, dear Helen, for your letter.  We are quite of your opinion, and hope most sincerely that Cuba will not give up until she has won her freedom.

Editor.

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THE GREAT ROUND WORLD

NATURAL HISTORY

Stories.

A Series of True Stories

BY

Julia Truitt Bishop.

Attractively Illustrated by Barnes.

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These stories will be issued in parts.  Price, 10 cents each.  Subscription price (12 numbers), $1.00.  Part 1. issued as supplement to great Round world. 19.

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    =Author’s Preface.=

The stories published in this little volume have been issued from time to time in the Philadelphia Times, and it is at the request of many readers that they now greet the world in more enduring form.  They have been written as occasion suggested, during several years; and they commemorate to me many of the friends I have known and loved in the animal world.  “Shep” and “Dr. Jim,” “Abdallah” and “Brownie,” “Little Dryad” and “Peek-a-Boo.”  I have been fast friends with every one, and have watched them with such loving interest that I knew all their ways and could almost read their thoughts.  I send them on to other lovers of dumb animals, hoping that the stories of these friends of mine will carry pleasure to young and old.

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    =William Beverley Harison,=

    =3 & 5 West 18th Street.=

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