Greyfriar's Bobby
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• Author: |
Eleanor Atkinson |
• Year Written: |
1912 |
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• Nationality: |
Scottish |
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• Genre: |
Fiction |
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• Cover Artist: |
TBA |
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• Voice Actor: |
TBA |
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• Recorded by: |
TBA |
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• Length: |
TBA |
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Kalliope's Review |
Take a book about a cute little dog. Add undying loyalty and devotion to his master. Mix in the need for someone to claim responsibility for him and to pay for his license, a chance that he will be destroyed, and a reprieve brought by the children of Edinburgh. All this delivers a story that will melt every heart and do it skillfully. ~ Kalliope |
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Short Book Summary |
Written by Eleanor Atkinson, American author, journalist, and teacher in 1912, Greyfriar's Bobby tells the fictionalized story of a little Skye Terrier who diligently guarded the grave of his master for fourteen years after his death. As a tribute to the faithfulness of this diminutive canine, a statue of Greyfriar's Bobby was commissioned in 1873 and stands today in Edinburgh, Scotland, immortalizing this beloved symbol of devotion to his owner. |
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Read First Paragraph |
"When the time-gun boomed from Edinburgh Castle, Bobby gave a startled yelp. He was only a little country dog--the very youngest and smallest and shaggiest of Skye terriers--bred on a heathery slope of the Pentland hills, where the loudest sound was the bark of a collie or the tinkle of a sheep-bell. That morning he had come to the weekly market with Auld Jock, a farm laborer, and the Grassmarket of the Scottish capital lay in the narrow valley at the southern base of Castle Crag. Two hundred feet above it the time-gun was mounted in the half-moon battery on an overhanging, crescent-shaped ledge of rock. In any part of the city the report of the one-o'clock gun was sufficiently alarming, but in the Grassmarket it was an earth-rending explosion directly overhead. It needed to be heard but once there to be registered on even a little dog's brain. Bobby had heard it many times, and he never failed to yelp a sharp protest at the outrage to his ears; but, as the gunshot was always followed by a certain happy event, it started in his active little mind a train of pleasant associations." |
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Quote: the Scribe |
"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity
of dogs than of friends." ~Alexander Pope ( 1688 - 1744 ) |