Animal Stories by Diane Namm

Author:Diane Namm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Sterling Children's Books
Published: 2010-07-12T00:00:00+00:00

Dog Stories

CHAPTER 9

A Dog’s Tale , by Mark Twain

My father was a St. Bernard dog. My mother was a collie. I’m a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me. I’m not quite sure what big words like that mean. But my mother liked to say them. She liked to see the looks of surprise and envy on the other dogs’ faces. They wondered how she got so smart. But it was only for show.

Mother liked to listen in on people conversations whenever our people had company. Mother also went to Sunday school with the children, and she learned a lot of big words there. She would repeat words to herself, over and over. She would carry them around in her head like precious jewels. Then, when there was a big dog gathering, she would surprise everyone with a new big word. The dogs who knew her were proud of her vocabulary. The ones who didn’t know her were always surprised by her big words. It made them feel small and embarrassed that they didn’t understand what she said. When they asked her what the big words meant, she always had an answer.

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