Identifier: McGillLibrary-PN970_H68_P6_1838-1197 (find matches)
Title: Poor Burruff
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Sherwood,Mrs.(Mary Martha),1775-1851 www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/book...
Subjects: Dogs -- Juvenile literature. Snakes -- Juvenile literature. Animal welfare -- Juvenile literature. Chapbooks -- Specimens. Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century McGill University Library Digitized Title McGill Library's Chapbook Collection Dogs Snakes Animal welfare Chapbooks
Publisher: London : Printed for Houlston and Son, 65, Paternoster-Row
Contributing Library: McGill University Library

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bearertook him out to look for the poor dog. But in the mean time an order hadcome out, that all the dogs who hadno master about Meerut should bekilled ; not from cruelty, but becausethere were so many poor dogs aboutwho were dvine; of hun2:er, and hadno home. Marten had not heard ofthis order, and therefore when he didnot find Burruff at the gate, he beg-ged his hearer to carry him to the huton the heath ; and all the way thelittle boy talked to his hearer, and said POOR BURRUFF. how he would feed Burfv, and takecare of him : hut when he came uponthe heath, he saw no white dog*, nei-ther was there any shepherd there,nor any sheep or goats, only two gen-tlemen riding on an elephant. I do believe that vou never saw anelephant, and I am almost sure thatyou never rode upon one, therefore Ihave drawn the picture of this ele-phant for you ; it was a black one,and very large, and walked as fast asany horse could canter. Marten and his hearer had come upvery close to the hut before they saw
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POOR BURRUFF. 11 BurrufF, and then thev found him ly*ing in the door-way, in a miserablecondition, and with an arrow in hisside. O, how did little Marten cry !and how did he beg the bearer to pullthe arrow out of the dog:s side! butthe bearer w^ould not touch him: how-ever, he was so good as to hastenback with Marten, who sent thesweeper-man immediately to the poordog, to remove the arrow, and bringhim to his masters house ; and he pro-mised him a piece of silver money if hewould take care of the poor creature.BurrufFwas soon brought to his newhome, and laid on straw, and fed;and, as the arrow had been taken out,and the wound was not deep, he soonlicked it well: and then he was ableto attend upon his dear little masterwhen he was taking the anr, and onmany other occasions. Marten had acollar, with his name upon it, put onBurruffs neck, to prevent any onefrom supposing that he was a dogwithout a master. 12 POOR BURRUFF. Would you not like to see a view ofthe house of Martens papa, and

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