Author: Emily Carr

Punk

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The House of All Sorts

 Loo’s strong,beautiful pups found a ready market. A soldier in Victoria owned a fine Old English Bobtail Sheepdog. When he went to the war his Bobtail was desolate. I heard of the dog and went to the soldier’s house, saw the shaggy huddle of misery watching the street corner around…

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Kennel

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The House of All Sorts

The ideas of a Bobtail kennel did not rush into my mind with a sudden burst. It matured slowly, growing from a sincere love of and admiration for the breed, awaked by my dog, Billie, a half-bred Old English Bobtail Sheep-dog. Billie’s Bobtail half was crammed with the loyalty,…

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How Long!

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The House of All Sorts

He was crude, enormous, coarse; his fleshy hands had fingers like bananas. You could feel their weight in the way they swung at the end of his arms. Ridiculous that he should choose the Doll’s Flat for a home while he was grinding out the life of his little…

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