My Doggie and I: A London Doctor, a Lost Dog and Its Owner
R. M. Ballantyne
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A young London doctor takes in a lost dog, and the search for its owner leads him through the lodging-houses, the dog-stealers and the poor of the city. Ballantyne wrote it in 1881 with a purpose — the trade in stolen dogs was real and lucrative — and let the dog carry the plot. The comedy is genuine and the ending settles a question about property that the book has been raising all along. Fifty-four plates of moonlit London streets and river views by painters including John Atkinson Grimshaw and James Baker Pyne give the doctor's night-time rounds their true atmosphere.
A young London doctor takes in a lost dog, and the search for its owner leads him through the lodging-houses, the dog-stealers and the poor of the city. Ballantyne wrote it in 1881 with a purpose — the trade in stolen dogs was real and lucrative — and let the dog carry the plot. The comedy is gen...
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R. M. Ballantyne (1825–1894) spent six years as a Hudson's Bay Company clerk in the Canadian north and afterwards wrote nearly a hundred adventure stories for boys, going first to live among firemen, divers and lighthouse keepers so that the details would be right. A mistake about coconuts in his first book taught him that lesson permanently.
R. M. Ballantyne (1825–1894) spent six years as a Hudson's Bay Company clerk in the Canadian north and afterwards wrote nearly a hundred adventure stories for boys, going first to live among firemen, divers and lighthouse keepers so that the details would be right. A mistake about coconuts in his...
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