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Bits About Animals
“Bits About Animals” appeared regularly in The Girl’s Own Paper, and soon came to be written almost
entirely by Ruth Lamb. This book presents the column in very nearly chronological order (with some
variations based on format constraints). “Fillers” appeared in the “Varieties” section of The Girl’s Own
Paper; while these were generally presented as factual, one often feels they might need to be accompanied
with a grain of salt...

1880 Stories About Snakes How the Ghost Was Caught
A Careful Elephant A Greedy Snake The Glove Restored
Memory and Sagacity of a Blind Horses 1887
Jackdaw Cats’ Little Tempers A Sagacious Colt
A Clever Raven Revenge in Cats 1889
Elephant Rope Dancing Cats Plotting to Attack a Dog Pensioner Cats
Calculating Crow The Butcher’s Horse 1891
Watch Dog Anecdotes of a Parrot Messenger Pugs
Singular Interposition Rosie and the Doves Blue-Cap, the Children’s
Dying of Joy Captain Bluff’s Trick Guide and Guardian
Sense of Ridicule Conscience in a Dog A Happy [Lion] Family
Revengeful Swallow Reconciled Enemies
Tortoise Anecdote of a Canary Fillers (various dates)
Laddie Strange Nesting-Place Teaching Tricks to Clever
Sam The Curious Kitten Cats
Clever Rats The Cunning Donkey Animals and Music
Snake Charming Spartan, the Newfoundland Questioning the Cuckoo
The “Baby” Elephant Brisk and Her Master Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
Parrot Piety Musical Animals The Dog of Montargis
A Useful Pussy Nugget and His Tune The Cricket on the Hearth
French Cats The Affection of Cows A Musical Elephant
Pompey Tame Rats Cats in Old England
A Dog that Calculated Time 1882 How the Cat Rang for Dinner
Jack Jack, the Railway Dog Wrens Learning to Sing
Charley 1883 The Dog and the Telephone
1881 Friends in Need A Man’s Life Saved by Cats
Polly’s Farewell Not to Be Caught Twice What the Superstitious Say
Revengeful Character of A Sociable Pig About Pussy
Parrots 1884 A Temperance Tale
Memory and Longevity of The Undaunted Martin A New Use for Bees
Parrots Doing Double Duty A Wise Dog
Parrot at the Register Office A Railway Dog A Faithful Dog
A Very Wise Bird Billy, a Seafaring Sheep A Dog Story
Johnny and Peacock The Inquisitive Weka A Royal Dog Fancier
Polly, the Blind Mare Our Persian Kitten Mercy to Man and Beast
The Cat that Introduced a Chance, the Fireman’s Dog
Successor The Foundling Thrush
Injustice Punished In the Lion’s Mouth
Rare Honesty 1885
Duty Before Revenge Our Feathered Friends
Strange Mouser A Swallow’s Practical Joke
The Two Rats Pansy and Bob
The Squatter Expelled A Punctual Pensioner
Our Dick 1886
The Traveling Cat A Little Duck
Keen Scent in Dogs Mr. Hare
Grey Polly Necessity the Mother of
Jolly and Her Friends Invention