CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
"White Dandy OR Master and I"
A HORSE'S STORY
25CENTS.
BY VELMA CALDWELL MELVILLE.
A COMPANION BOOK TO "BLACK BEAUTY."
J. S. Ogilvie, Publishing Co.
57 Rose st. New York.
"White Dandy"
OR,
MASTER AND I.
A Horse's Story.
BY
VELMA CALDWELL MELVILLE.
Author of "Queen Bess."
A Companion Story to "Black Beauty."
THE SUNNYSIDE SERIES. No. 102. July, 1898. Issued Quarterly.
$1.00 per year. Entered at New York Post-Office as second-class matter.
(Copyright 1898 by J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Co.)
NEW YORK:
J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY,
57 Rose Street.
"WHITE DANDY"
OR,
MASTER AND I.
CHAPTER I.
Master is Dr. Richard Wallace and I am Dandy, thedoctor's favorite horse, long-tried companion andfriend.
Neither of us are as young as we once were, but timeseems to tell less on us than on some others, though I havenever been quite the same since that dreadful year thatMaster was out West. He often strokes my face and says:"We're getting old, my boy, getting old, but it don't matter."Then I see a far away look in the kind, blue eyes—a lookthat I know so well—and I press my cheek against his, tryingto comfort him. I know full well what he is thinkingabout, whether he mentions it right out or not.
Yes, I remember all about the tragedy that shaped bothour lives, and how I have longed for intelligent speech thatI might talk it all over with him.
He is sixty-two now and I only half as old, but while heis just as busy as ever, he will not permit me to undertake asingle hardship.
Dr. Fred—his brother and partner—so