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    The Story of Scraggles
    The Story of Scraggles
    The Story of Scraggles
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    The Story of Scraggles

    By Sears Gallagher and George Wharton James

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013

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      The Story of Scraggles - Sears Gallagher

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      Title: The Story of Scraggles

      Author: George Wharton James

      Illustrator: Sears Gallagher

      Release Date: March 9, 2013 [EBook #42285]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF SCRAGGLES ***

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      by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      THE STORY OF SCRAGGLES

      GEORGE WHARTON JAMES

      The Story of Scraggles

      Scraggles and The ’Fessor.

      The Story of Scraggles

      By

      George Wharton James

      Author of

      In and Around the Grand Canyon,

      In and Out of the Old Missions of California,

      The Wonders of the Colorado Desert, etc.

      Illustrated from Drawings by Sears Gallagher and from Photographs

      Boston

      Little, Brown, and Company

      1906

      Copyright, 1906,

      By Edith E. Farnsworth

      .

      ———

      All rights reserved

      Published October, 1906

      THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

      INTRODUCTION

      Most of our Indians have a tradition that in the days of old animals and man had a common speech. Each was able to understand the other, and thoughts and language were common to all. It was not until man began to regard himself as superior to the animals and think of them as lower that this oneness of speech and relationship was lost. Since then envy, jealousy, anger, on one side, and conceit, pride, and contempt on the other have widened the breach, while Love has stood with tearful eyes looking on at the sad and unnatural estrangement.

      But in these latter days prophets among the white race have risen up to awaken again within man the desire for brotherhood with the humbler creations of God. Thoreau, John Burroughs, John Muir, Ernest Thompson Seton, W. J. Long, Elizabeth Grinnell, and many others, are showing us our kinship to the birds, buds, bees, blossoms, and beasts. It is with the two thoughts before me of the common speech and understanding existent between the animals and man, and of the kinship that affection shows us does really exist, that I have written the Story of Scraggles from her viewpoint, with the confident anticipation that young and old alike will enjoy this truthful record of a sweet and beautiful little life.

      While, of course, the thoughts put into Scraggles’ words are mine, the statements of fact are literally true. I have told the story as nearly in accord with the incidents as they actually occurred, as this method of telling the story would permit.

      GEORGE WHARTON JAMES

      1098 N. Raymond Ave.

      Pasadena, California

      Feb. 23, 1906

      CONTENTS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      The Story of Scraggles

      Chapter I

      How I Came to Live in a House

      I was only a little baby song-sparrow, and from the moment I came out of my shell everybody knew there was something the matter with me. I don’t know what it could have been, for my brother and sister were well and strong. Perhaps I was out of the first egg that was laid, and a severe spell of cold had come and partially frozen me; or a storm had shaken the bough in which our nest was, so that I was partly addled. Anyhow, no matter what caused it, there was no denying the fact that when I was born I was an ailing little bird, and this made both my father and mother very cross with me. I couldn’t help being so weak, and they might have been kinder to me; but when the other eggs were hatched out and

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