The Fireside Library.
ANIMAL
CHUMS
True Tales about Four-footed
Friends
BY
JEAN McINTOSH
NEW YORK
SULLY AND KLEINTEICH
(PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN)
Have you ever heard of any one having a real live goose for a pet?"said Uncle John to Willie and Tommy.
"Oh! do tell us all about it, uncle," said Tommy.
Now these two little boys loved to hear a nice story; and whenevertheir uncle came to live with them, they made him promise to come totheir nursery every evening and tell them a story.
"Well," said Uncle John, when they had settled down, "this is a truestory that I am going to tell you to-night."
"I know it is true, because I saw the goose not very long ago, and veryfunny he did look with his—"
"But I must begin at the beginning."