Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune's Books(2)

His Dog

Literature

5.0

Albert Payson Terhune, an acclaimed journalist and collie expert, shot to literary fame as the author of a beloved series of tales featuring his own collie, Lad. In His Dog, Terhune explores the dog-human bond from a different angle: a young farmer finds an injured dog and nurses it back to health, only to discover that the resulting friendship is more than he ever bargained for—in more ways than one.

Bruce

Literature

5.0

SHE was beautiful. And she had a heart and a soul--which were a curse. For without such a heart and soul, she might have found the tough life-battle less bitterly hard to fight. But the world does queer things--damnable things--to hearts that are so tenderly all-loving and to souls that are so trustfully and forgivingly friendly as hers. Her "pedigree name" was Rothsay Lass. She was a collie--daintily fragile of build, sensitive of nostril, furrily tawny of coat. Her ancestry was as flawless as any in Burke's Peerage. If God had sent her into the world with a pair of tulip ears and with a shade less width of brain-space she might have been cherished...