Tag: Or, The Chien Boule Dog

by Valance J Patriarche, Wallace Goldsmith (Illustrator)

An amusing story of a newly married couple, whose honeymoon is interrupted by the appearance of a lost child, and a dog, decidedly a dog. The young wife, whose kindly interest in the forlorn little fellow traveller, "Bateese " and his "Chien Boule Dog," results in all sorts of complications, the young husband, and last, though not least, the boy, "Bateese," who is sublimely unconscious of being the central figure in what proves almost a tragedy (at least from the point of view of a man cheated out of his honeymoon) are all drawn with a fine humor.

The story is an exquisite bit of humor which will be read again and again.

--Publisher's advertisement, 1909

138 pages, ebook

First published August 1, 1909

Reviews

[Aaron · Rating 3 out of 5]

I saw an advertisement for this book in the back of an early edition of Anne of Green Gables and was intrigued. I can't really recommend it very highly, I think some of the humor is lost without the context of the time, but it was an interesting peak into the past.