used to go to the top of the house into our baby-sister's nursery. He
was very fond of her; but usually timed his visits so as to come in for
her dinner or supper, of which he always had a share.
She used to put her tin of milk on the floor and sit beside it: first
Joey took a lap or two, then baby had a sip; and so they emptied the
mug together: and at her dinner, Joe used to eat the pudding at one
side of the plate, whilst baby worked away at the other.
Then they took a roll on the floor together, and whatever rough pull or
pinch was bestowed on Joe, he never snapped or hurt the little girl;
indeed, would let her do anything she liked with him.
He was very long before he gave up his puppy fashion of tearing and
biting everything. If a book or a piece of work fell on the ground,
Joey's sharp teeth soon brought them into a deplorable condition. If he
could get hold of a bonnet, he soon dragged off ribbon, flowers, lace,
and whatever it possessed; and poor little baby's toys, balls, and
dolls were never presentable after they had been five minutes in the
house.
Then he wickedly pulled to pieces the mat at the bottom of the stairs,
for which he was well whipped; in short, the mischief he did was
terrible.
His encounters with the cock did not prove sufficient exercise for the
hardy little fellow; and he began to get so fat, that we determined to
send him into the country, to some place where he would have a great
deal of running about out of doors.
We were sorry to part with him for the time we should be in London; but
we did not wish to see him become too fat to waddle.
So Papa took him with him when he went into the country to visit some
friends. He placed him with a man who was to teach him rat-hunting; and
Joe showed that he had an excellent nose, and promised to be a
first-rate ratter.
But when Papa had returned to London, we heard that poor Joe had made
his appearance again at the house of the friend whither Papa had first
taken him. He was looking sadly thin and wretched, and ran into the
bed-room Papa had used, and searched for him in all directions.
The poor little fellow remained there until Papa made another
arrangement for him, as evidently he had been ill-used by the
rat-catcher.
He next was sent to a gamekeeper's, who lived in a nice park, where
there was a beautiful rabbit-warren, plenty of stacks for ratting, a
stream to swim in, and fields and farms to range about.
There we hoped he would be very happy; and as poor little Joe is still
alive, I have not to relate his end at present, and hope that he will
still afford us much amusement.
* * * * *
Now I think I have described the greater part of the animals, birds,
and creatures of all kinds that belonged to me and my sister. How much
pleasure we derived from them! And what a mixture of pity and contempt
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There was a family of little children near us once, when we had our
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even though he was taking no notice of them in particular. Then they
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him; for their intense fear of the dog rendered them quite cruel; and
when he found that they tried to hurt him, and shouted at him, he used
to bark in return, which of course terrified them more.
Then some of our friends had quite a horror of our hedgehog, and our
bat, and wondered how we could kiss Neddy's nose, and Bluebeard's. I am
sure their soft nice coats were quite as pleasant to kiss, as many
people's faces.
I only wish that all little children would love animals, and find as
much amusement as we did in the care of our Live Toys.
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