Dogs
Dogs, dog-training, cruelty to animals, loyalty, goodness versus genius..
After an older brother tells his younger siblings all about an extraordinary dog he encountered in New York City, his mother criticizes animal cruelty and reminds them of the fidelity and goodness of dogs.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
"Stockbridge S."
<em>The Juvenile Miscellany</em> [edited by Lydia Maria Child], (March 1828): 30-43
1828
L. Damon-Bach, D. Gussman
Reprinted as <em>The Sagacity of Dogs.</em> Boston: Marsh & Capen, 1828. Collected in <em>Stories for Young Persons</em>, 153-63, 1840.
English
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Our Robins
Death and dying; the natural world.
The narrator spends time with her dying friend and the friend's young son, sharing a love of flowers and birds, and reflecting on the habits of robins and their similarities to human beings.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
A Love-Token for Children: Designed for Sunday-School Libraries, 40- 52.
New York: Harper & Brothers
1838
Robin L. Cadwallader, L. Damon-Bach, D. Gussman
Reprinted in the Southern Literary Messenger [edited by T.H. White] (May 1838): 318-21. Collected in Stories for Children [edited by Robin L. Cadwallader], RMTK Books, 2016, 25-46.
English
Susy's Cow
Mothers and daughters, cows, humane treatment of animals, poverty.
A widowed mother must sell her daughter's beloved cow in order to pay for medical care. The cow demonstrates devotion to its calf and the daughter.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
The Boys and Girls' Library [edited by Mrs. Colman]
Boston: T. H. Carter & Co.
1844
Robin Cadwallader, D. Gussman
Collected in The Boys' and Girls' Annual, Boston: T. H. Carter and Company, n.d., and in Stories for Children [edited by Robin Cadwallader], 1-12, RMTK Books, 2016.
English