Page 5 - Bits

Contents

Articles are from The Girl’s Own Paper unless otherwise noted.

Introduction, by Moira Allen ...................................................................................................... 7
The Tom-Tit’s Complaint (poem), by Jetty Vogel (1885) ......................................................... 8
How We Saved the Poor Birds in Winter (1880) ...................................................................... 9
Bits About Animals (see below), by Ruth Lamb et al. ........................................................ 10-49
Bits About Rats (1881) .............................................................................................................. 16
Our Dick (1881) ......................................................................................................................... 19
Mountain Sheep, Shepherding, and Shepherds’ Dogs, by Ruth Lamb (1881) ...................... 26
Mr. Smith (poem), by Wilfred Woollam (Cassell’s Family Magazine, 1888) .......................... 27
Bits About Animals: Dogs, by Ruth Lamb (1881) .................................................................... 28
A Useful Bird (Poem) (1880) .................................................................................................... 34
Signs of Spring (Poem) (1881) .................................................................................................. 35
Tippoo the Foundling, by Ruth Lamb (1885) ........................................................................... 36
Bits About Birds, by Ruth Lamb (1885) ................................................................................... 37
Legends of the Habits of Animals ............................................................................................ 38
Long-Tail, Esquire, by Ruth Lamb (1885) ................................................................................ 39
A Doggie Story, by Ruth Lamb (1885) ...................................................................................... 41
Qui M’Aime, Aime Mon Chien/Cave Canem (Poem) (1894) ................................................ 43
Over the Kaveri: A True Incident, by Mrs. Austin Dobson (1888) ........................................ 45
Lord Randolph and Tim; Snow, by Ruth Lamb (1889) .......................................................... 46
Jack: My Fox Terrier, by Daniel Dormer (1894) ..................................................................... 50
Our Birds (1892) ........................................................................................................................ 54
Mungo: A Study, by Eliza Brightwen (1895) ............................................................................ 59
The Whip-poor-Will (Poem), by G.P. Morris (Young People’s Scrapbook, 1884) .................. 60
Lemurs, by Eliza Brightwen (1894) ........................................................................................... 61
A “Fairy” Story, by Eliza Brightwen (1895) ............................................................................. 62
Asnapper: The Brown Owl, by Eliza Brightwen (1895) .......................................................... 63
Our Storks (1895) ...................................................................................................................... 64
Tame Doves, by Eliza Brightwen (1895) ................................................................................... 64
The Tree-Kittens, by Eliza Brightwen (1896) ........................................................................... 67
Anchor: A Stag-Beetle Study, by Eliza Brightwen (1897) ....................................................... 68
Tame Voles, by Eliza Brightwen (1899) .................................................................................... 69
The Fierceness of Gloucester: the Taming of Squirrels, by Eliza Brightwen (1898) ............ 70
How Bruin Allowed Johannes to Pass Him (1900) ................................................................. 71
Mischievous Jack, by Eliza Brightwen (1899) .......................................................................... 72
The Sorrows of a Son and Heir, by Eliza Brightwen (1898) ................................................... 73
Merops/Merops Married, by Eliza Brightwen (1901) ............................................................. 74
Timma, by Frederick J. Crowest (1901) ..................................................................................... 76
Chance Glimpses of Nature, by Eliza Brightwen (1901) ......................................................... 79
My Pet (Poem), by Sydney Grey (1885) .................................................................................... 81
Some Favorite Dogs, by Evelyn Everett Green (Cassell’s Family Magazine, 1888) ................ 81
To Our Editor: Jetty Vogel’s Cat (Poem), by Jetty Vogel (1887) .......................................... 85
The Dogs of Cornwall, by a Westmoreland Naturalist (Leisure Hour, 1860) ........................... 85
Natural History of the Peacock (Poem) (Atlantic Monthly, 1865) .......................................... 89
Anecdotes of Animals/Notes of a Westmoreland Naturalist (Leisure Hour, 1860) .............. 89
Animal Friendship, by Albert H. Broadwall (The Strand, 1899) .............................................. 95