Bibliograph

Animal spirits, a carnival of prose, poetry, and cartoons, edited by Whit Burnett

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Animal spirits, a carnival of prose, poetry, and cartoons, edited by Whit Burnett

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Animal spirits

Oclc number

1487670

Responsibility statement

edited by Whit Burnett

Sub title

a carnival of prose, poetry, and cartoons

Table Of Contents

Foreword : the animals around us -- Man's best friend : the dog. A dog's best friend is his illiteracy / Ogden Nash -- Living with a dog / Roger Angell -- Moo and the putty shot / Charles R. McDowell -- Talking dogs / Robert Benchley -- Dogs in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- For a good dog / Ogeden Nash -- A dog in Yorkshire / Eric Knight -- The noble animal : the horse. Memoirs of the stable / H.L. Mencken -- The horse : buying it and riding it / R.J. Yeatman and W.C. Sellar -- The horse / P.M. Hubbard -- Indifferent friends : the cow, brother bull, the pigs and chickens. Mary / John Collier -- End of the chaticleer! / Robert Benchley -- The quizzical cat. A cat's-eye view of history / Margaret Cooper Gay -- The naming of cats / T.S. Eliot -- Feathers / Carl Van Vechten -- Mehitabel meets her mate / Don Marquis -- The birds. Father and the birds / Frances Eisenberg -- High life among the birds / Robert Benchley -- Fun with animals / Robert Benchley -- Our parrot / Louis Bromfield -- The truth about birds / W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman -- Pigeons in the grass, alas / P.G. Wodehouse -- Man and fish. To a fish and a fish answers / Leigh Hunt -- Do fish think, really? / WIll Cuppy -- The captive beast. At the zoo / John D. Sheridan -- Simian love / Clarence Day -- The savage state. Evolution sidelights / Robert Benchley -- Own your own snake / Will Cuppy -- Warty Bliggens, the toad / Don Marquis -- If man had been descended from the great cats / Clarence Day -- Milton and the rhinoceros / Roger Price

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