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BROTHERS OF PITY
AND OTHER TALES OF BEASTS AND MEN
by
JULIANA HORATIA EWING
London:
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,
Northumberland Avenue, W.C.
Brighton: 129, North Street.
New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co.
[Published under the direction of the General Literature Committee.]
DEDICATED
TO MY DEAR SISTER
HORATIA KATHARINE FRANCES GATTY.
J.H.E.
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.
These tales have appeared, during some years past, in _Aunt Judy's
Magazine for Young People_.
"Father Hedgehog and his Neighbours," and "Toots and Boots," were both
suggested by Fedor Flinzer's clever pictures; but "Toots" was also "a
real person." In his latter days he was an honorary member of the Royal
Engineers' Mess at Aldershot, and, on occasion, dined at table.
"The Hens of Hencastle" is not mine. It is a free translation from the
German of Victor Bluethgen, by Major Yeatman-Biggs, R.A., to whom I am
indebted for permission to include it in my volume, as a necessary
prelude to "Flaps." The story took my fancy greatly, but the ending
seemed to me imperfect and unsatisfactory, especially in reference to so
charming a character as the old watch dog, and I wrote "Flaps" as a
sequel.
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