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Title: Beautiful Joe
An Autobiography of a Dog

Author: by Marshall Saunders

Release Date: November 24, 2003 [EBook #10226]

Language: English

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BEAUTIFUL JOE

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

BY MARSHALL SAUNDERS

Author of

"My Spanish Sailor,"
"Charles and His Lamb,"
"Daisy," etc.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH

OF YOUTH'S COMPANION

1903

TO

GEORGE THORNDIKE ANGELL

PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN HUMANE EDUCATION SOCIETY

THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION

OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, AND THE PARENT

AMERICAN BAND OF MERCY

19 MILK ST., BOSTON

THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY THE AUTHOR

PREFACE

Beautiful Joe is a real dog, and "Beautiful Joe" is his real name. He
belonged during the first part of his life to a cruel master, who
mutilated him in the manner described in the story. He was rescued from
him, and is now living in a happy home with pleasant surroundings, and
enjoys a wide local celebrity.

The character of Laura is drawn from life, and to the smallest detail is
truthfully depicted. The Morris family has its counterparts in real
life, and nearly all of the incidents of the story are founded on
fact.--THE AUTHOR.

INTRODUCTION

The wonderfully successful book, entitled "Black Beauty," came like a
living voice out of the animal kingdom. But it spake for the horse, and
made other books necessary; it led the way. After the ready welcome that
it received, and the good it has accomplished and is doing, it followed
naturally tha