African Pets: Or, Chats about Our Animal Friends in Natal : with a Sketch of Kaffir Life |
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... that you will take as much pleasure in reading about these animals as I have taken in writing of them , I remain , yours affectionately , THE AUTHORESS . CONTENTS . THE STORY OF AN EEFIT , . LOUIS 8 LETTER TO LITTLE FOLKS .
... that you will take as much pleasure in reading about these animals as I have taken in writing of them , I remain , yours affectionately , THE AUTHORESS . CONTENTS . THE STORY OF AN EEFIT , . LOUIS 8 LETTER TO LITTLE FOLKS .
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... LOUIS QUATORZE , GIGANTICUM , CETEWEYO , A CHAPTER ABOUT BIRDS ,. ADDOZ AND JENNY , . SOME DOGS THAT I HAVE KNOWN , QUEER PETS , ' ODDS AND ENDS , ' A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE KAFFIRS , PAGE II 33 48 59 69 83 96 114 138 145 LIST OF FULL ...
... LOUIS QUATORZE , GIGANTICUM , CETEWEYO , A CHAPTER ABOUT BIRDS ,. ADDOZ AND JENNY , . SOME DOGS THAT I HAVE KNOWN , QUEER PETS , ' ODDS AND ENDS , ' A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE KAFFIRS , PAGE II 33 48 59 69 83 96 114 138 145 LIST OF FULL ...
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... up , and purring happily , a fat , sleek tabby ( not at all unlike my Eefit's murderer ) , and for whom , I am sorry to say , I feel a very strong attachment . L LOUIS QUATORZE . OUIS QUATORZE is , I quite 32 AFRICAN PETS .
... up , and purring happily , a fat , sleek tabby ( not at all unlike my Eefit's murderer ) , and for whom , I am sorry to say , I feel a very strong attachment . L LOUIS QUATORZE . OUIS QUATORZE is , I quite 32 AFRICAN PETS .
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... LOUIS QUATORZE . OUIS QUATORZE is , I quite acknow- ledge , a rather strange name for a cat . But I think my little readers will say , when I tell them of something he did , that he quite deserved a royal name ; and Louis Quatorze , as ...
... LOUIS QUATORZE . OUIS QUATORZE is , I quite acknow- ledge , a rather strange name for a cat . But I think my little readers will say , when I tell them of something he did , that he quite deserved a royal name ; and Louis Quatorze , as ...
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... Louis Quatorze had a foreign sort of look ; and although both his papa and mamma were English , or more properly Colonial cats , he was quite unlike any English bred and born cat that ever I saw . with all sorts of different faces ...
... Louis Quatorze had a foreign sort of look ; and although both his papa and mamma were English , or more properly Colonial cats , he was quite unlike any English bred and born cat that ever I saw . with all sorts of different faces ...
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