Treasury of Animal Stories

How Saint Francis preached to the birds From the Navaho hunting song Song of the horse Tale of the gypsy horse / Donn Byrne Kerfol / Edith Wharton The wood duck / James Thurber The gift / John Steinbeck The conversion of St. Wilfrid / Rudyard Kipling Chanticleer and Pertelote / Chaucer Hey diddle, diddle, the cat / Eden Phillpotts / Edgar Allan Poe How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning The song of the falcon / Maxim Gorki The crocodile / Fiodor Dostoievski Makel-Adel / Ivan Turgeneff The oldest dog story in literature Æpyornis Island / H.G. Wells Whippetsnapper / Florence Healey The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benét Sredni Vashtar / Saki Argos / Homer Battling a sea monster / Victor Hugo Northwind / Herbert Ravenel Sass The witch hare / Walter de la Mare The knight and the greyhound / Walter de la Mare A sailor's yarn / John Masefield The squaw / Bram Stoker Riquet / Anatole France For my lady / Albert R. Wetjen The honk-honk breed / Stewart Edward White On cats / T.S. Eliot The backbreaker's bride / Henry Williamson A cat in the family / Winifred Williams Miss Holloway's goat / Luigi Pirandello A vendetta / Guy de Maupassant Mehitabel's extensive past / Don Marquis Madame Jolicœur's cat / Thomas A. Janvier Alice in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll The urban rat and the suburban rat / Guy Wetmore Carryl Blue-jays / Mark Twain The pope's mule / Alphonse Daudet The oracle of the dog / Gilbert K. Chesterton The wild goat's kid / Liam O'Flaherty Then the witch came / E. Louise Mally A passion in the desert / Honoré de Balzac A tent in agony / Stephen Crane For the love of a man / Jack London Kashtanka / Anton Chekhov A friendly rat / W.H. Hudson The stuff of dreams / Helen Dore Boylston Lady into fox / David Garnett The Rubáiyát of a persian kitten / Oliver Herford The capture of the great white whale / Herman Melville Rab and his friends / John Brown Mary / John Collier.