Foxes for Horses (1917)

“From Tobytown by Chandler A Oates,” Bookseller, Newsdealer, & Stationer Holiday Number (November 15, 1917): 676.

“Nothing but a Dog,” Said the Boy (1897)

“How ‘The Skipper’ Was Saved,” The Quiver (1897): 179.

Aunt Carrie Winds the Clock (1877)

“Aunt Carrie Winds the Clock,” St. Nicholas IV (March 1877): back cover.

The Indian Dog Train Was Used When the Snow Was Too Deep or Too Soft to Uphold Horses (1915)

Seymour Dunbar, A History of Travel in America, Showing the Development of Travel and Transportation from the Crude Methods of the Canoe and the Dog-Sled to the Highly Organized Railway Systems of the Present, Together with a Narrative of the Human Experiences and Changing Social Conditions That Accompanied This Economic Conquest of the Continent  (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915), 54.

Then, Wearily and Drearily / Across the Moorland Wild, / Half Numb’d With Frost (Her Pathway Lost) / Paced on the Wilder’d Child (1855)

Jane Krewdsen, “Katie Lee: A Scotch Story,” Aunt Jane’s Verses for Children (Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge, 1855), 12.

There Is Time Enough for the Children to Learn of the Dreadful Privations and Hardships of the Pitiless North (1913)

Lillian Porter, “Eskimos Again,” Primary Education 21 (January 1913): 27.

Our Lives Were in the Hand of God. On the 8th We Tasted the Dogs’ Flesh for the First Time (1901)

“The Voyage of the Polar Star: ‘Nearest the Pole.’ Commander Cagni’s Own Account of His Hazardous Journey,” The Pall Mall Magazine 24 ( May to August 1901): 413.

Often They Tried to Tell Him the Importance of the Smoke-Wreath in the Rear, but He Could Not Comprehend and Grew Suspicious of Them (1904)

Jack London, “The One Thousand Dozen,” The Windsor Magazine 20 (June –November 1904): 181.

Christmas Will Be (1897)

Adelaide Victoria Finch. The Finch Primer.(Boston: Ginn & Company, 1897), 36.

There Is the Nocturnal Visitor Whom You Have so Long Taken for the Ghost of Your Mother (1854)

 “The Ghost of Larneville,”  Engraving from the designs of Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Ghost Stories: Collected with a Particular View to Counteract the Vulgar Belief in Ghosts and Apparitions, (Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1854), frontispiece.

Cato, with a Loud Bark and a Growl, Seized the Throat of the Gipsy Who Was Stripping Harry (1858)

I Won’t and I Will (London: William Tegg and Company, 1858), 24.

The Child Was Lost, and through the Night Strong Hearts Went Forth (1883)

“Lost,” Frank Leslie’s Pleasant Hours 34 (February 1883): 216.

We Smile and Listen to the Song / the Burthen Still Remote or Near / “Old Christmas Comes but Once a Year” (1857)

Rhymes and Roundelayes in Praise of a Country Life: Adorned with Many Pictures (London: David Bogue, 1857), 175.

Straight at the Man He Launched His One Hundred and Forty Pounds of Fury (1915)

Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Illustration by Philip R. Goodwin (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1915), 20.

Blanche Stands by, with Anxious Heart, Half Hopeful, Half Afraid (1847)

Caroline Sheridan Norton. Aunt Carry’s Ballads, Illustration by John Absolon (London: Joseph Cundall, 1847), 48.

Protecting with Her Body the Children (1883)

“Female Heroism,”  Frank Leslie’s Popular Review 34 (1883): 378.

The Dog on the Grave of His Master in the Louvre (1830)

Le chien sur le tombeau de son maître au Louvre, Dessin à la plume et lavis à l'encre brune sur traits à la mine de plomb, 14.5 x 10.7 cm, (1830), Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, RESERVE FOL-VE-53 (E).

The Dying Favorite (1858)

“The Dying Favorite,” Drawn by J. Brown. Engraved by A.L. Dick. Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine 11 (January 1858): 62.

All Efforts to Save the Poor Dog’s Life Were Fruitless; And He Died, a Victim of Devotion (1898)

“A Noble Animal,” Every Other Sunday 14 (September 1998): 12.

I Hastened to Assure the Young Lady that Long Knowledge of the Subtle Ways of Big Dogs Led Me to the Course of Action She Was Good Enough to Commend in Me (1885)

“Wyvern Moat,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 72 (December 1885): 82.