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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