Fairy, the Autobiography of a Real Dog (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Fairy, the Autobiography of a Real Dog

This autobiography of Fairy was undertaken as a labor of love and remembrance for her beautiful life, which she lived among us with such sweetness and grace that it has lain upon my conscience to tell her story to the children, that it may move them to a closer observance of, and a greater compassion toward, all dumb animals, so mutely dependent upon their sympathies.

And in all little Fairy's experiences, as well as those of other dogs which she cites, I have not allowed myself to depart from the truth; my whole motive has been to so conscientiously mirror her loving life of thirteen years, that all my readers may know and feel that they are perusing true annals.

I am deeply indebted to many of our noblest poets for the stanzas I have so freely drawn upon; and especially am I indebted to the author of the poem dedicated to the closing scene of that gentle life, - "Fairy's Requiem."

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