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    My Dog Tray
    My Dog Tray
    My Dog Tray
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    My Dog Tray

    By Horace Petherick

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      My Dog Tray - Horace Petherick

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of My Dog Tray, by Unknown

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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      Title: My Dog Tray

      Author: Unknown

      Illustrator: H. W. Petherick

      Release Date: February 15, 2007 [EBook #20575]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY DOG TRAY ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Sankar Viswanathan, and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      (This file was produced from images generously made

      available by The University of Florida, The Internet

      Archive/Children's Library)

      Aunt Louisa’s London Toy Books,

      MY DOG TRAY

      From Coloured Designs by

      H. W. PETHERICK.

      LONDON: FREDERICK WARNE & CO.

      MY DOG TRAY.

      Twice every week a poor, thin man,

      Holding his little daughter’s hand,

      Walked feebly to a hospital,

      Close by the busy London Strand.

      He hoped the clever doctors there

      In time would make him strong and well,

      That he might go to work again,

      And live to care for little Nell.

      Beside wee Nell, her faithful friend,

      Good old dog Tray was always seen,

      Never a day apart the pair

      Since Nelly’s babyhood had been.

      But all the doctors’ skill was vain,

      Poor William Bruce soon passed away,

      Leaving his little orphan child

      Without a friend—save poor dog Tray.

      The little money he had saved

      He left to his landlady’s care,

      That Nelly, till she older grew,

      The woman’s humble home might share.

      He thought her honest—but,

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