Chapter I: Front Matter

DOGTOWN

DOGTOWN

BEING SOME CHAPTERS FROM THE ANNALS OF
THE WADDLES FAMILY, SET DOWN IN
THE LANGUAGE OF HOUSEPEOPLE

BY
MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT
AUTHOR OF “TOMMY-ANNE,” “THE FRIENDSHIP OF NATURE”
“BIRDCRAFT,” ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED BY PORTRAITS FROM LIFE
BY THE AUTHOR_

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1902

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1902,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped October, 1902.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

“Such soft, warm bodies to cuddle,
Such queer little hearts to beat;
Such swift, round tongues to kiss,
Such sprawling, cushiony feet.
She could feel in her clasping fingers
The touch of the satiny skin,
And a cold, wet nose exploring
The dimples under her chin.”

This Book
is for
all those
who love
children
and dogs

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Enter Mrs. Waddles 1
II. Miss Letty and Hamlet 28
III. Trouble Begins 60
IV. Exit Lumberlegs 81
V. Jack and Jill Waddles 104
VI. Table Boarders 138
VII. Five O’clock Teas 171
VIII. A Hen Party 201
IX. The Herb Witch 220
X. Told by the Fire 247
XI. “Over the Hills and Far Away!” 274
XII. The Sixlets 300
XIII. Ben Uncas’s Last Hunt 331
XIV. The Barbed Wire Fence 367
XV. The Wedding 399

Illustrations

FULL PAGES

AFTER THE BATTLE _Frontispiece_

PAGE
DINAH, LARK, PHŒBE, AND BOBWHITE vii
THE MAYOR OF DOGTOWN 15
HAPPY’S FIRST VIEW OF WADDLES 22
MISS LETTY 37
TOMMY AND LUMBERLEGS 61
“HE STOOD TRANSFIXED” 79
MISS MUFFET, BROTHER, AND LUMBERLEGS 102
TOAD HUNTING 118
ANNE DREW BACK THE CURTAIN AND LOOKED OUT 134
ANNE AND TOMMY 148
WADDLES BAYING THE OWLS 163
“WADDLES DREW BACK AND EYED IT RUEFULLY” 170
“ONE LUMP OR TWO, PLEASE?” 182
THE HERB WITCH 239
MISS LETTY FEEDING THE KENNEL DOGS 272
“PULLING A BRANCH DOWN WITH HER WHIP” 278
“HE STOOD IN THE GATEWAY HOLDING HIS GUN” 285
ANTONIO AND THE YOUNG SPANIELS 292
THE SIXLETS 301
NAMING THE PUPS 317
ON GUARD 326
THE REWARD 347
BEN UNCAS 354
JIM (Seeley photo) 362
“MISS LETTY WAS WAITING WITH A SMILE” 378
TOMMY WALKED ON IN SILENCE 380
TOMMY MEETS THE RABBIT 386

IN TEXT

MRS. WADDLES 1
AUNT PRUE AND THE CAT BASKET 8
WADDLES GREETING AUNT PRUE 12
ANNE AND FOX 30
HAMLET BEGGING (Pach Photo) 43
HAMLET READING (Pach Photo) 46
MR. HUGH’S HORSE 54
“HIS HEAVY CURLS WERE A MAT OF MUD AND BURRS” 58
“THE MAIL BAG SWINGING FROM ITS GALLOWS” 64
LILY 68
THE GAME OF SNATCH BONE 71
WADDLES DETHRONED 74
LUMBERLEGS 81
WADDLES SNIFFING THE MORNING AIR 90
WHEN WADDLES WAS ILL 100
JACK AND JILL WADDLES 104
CURIOSITY 115
WRESTLING 121
“JACK WATCHED HER OUT OF THE CORNER OF ONE EYE” 127
JACK WADDLES 129
THE JAY AT BREAKFAST 154
AN OWL BABY 156
MAMMA OWL 160
THE DAYTIME PERCH 165
“BUTTER’S COME!” 178
“THEY WERE HERALDED BY MUCH CREAKING OF WHEELS” 185
WADDLES FINDS THE CAKE BASKET 199
A HEN PARTY 201
AT THE CROSS-ROADS 220
THE CHICKEN COOP 227
THE HERB WITCH’S HOME 228
“ALSO GEESE THAT MAKE GOOD GUIDE-POSTS” 246
THE KENNEL YARD 256
A BOARDER 258
THE PUPPIES’ BATH-TUB 262
IN THE KENNEL KITCHEN 263
MARTIN BAKING BREAD 266
READY FOR TRAVEL 268
FLO POINTING 281
SILVER-TONGUE 296
HAPPY AT HOME 307
BIG BROTHER 309
IN MISCHIEF 312
LEAP-FROG 322
OUT OF SCHOOL 324
“DRINK, PUPPY, DRINK!” 330
WATCHING OUT 335
QUICK 338
COLIN 344
“A GREAT OWL WITH A SMOOTH ROUND HEAD” 383
THE BRIDE 401
“TOMMY SHOUTED ‘ME!’” 402
“HE SUCCEEDED IN SITTING UPRIGHT” 404
“TIP MOUNTED GUARD UNTIL NIGHT CAME” 405

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