Marshall Saunders, John Nicolson, Hezekiah Butterworth
Beautiful Joe
eBook
( Nov. 22, 2016)
“My name is Beautiful Joe, and I am a brown dog of medium size. I am not called Beautiful Joe because I am a beauty. Mr. Morris, the clergyman, in whose family I have lived for the last twelve years, says that he thinks I must be called Beautiful Joe for the same reason that his grandfather, down South, called a very ugly colored slave-lad Cupid, and his mother Venus.
I do not know what he means by that, but when he says it, people always look at me and smile. I know that I am not beautiful, and I know that I am not a thoroughbred. I am only a cur.
I am an old dog now, and am writing, or rather getting a friend to write, the story of my life.”
This edition of Beautiful Joe includes:
• An introduction by Hezekiah Butterworth
• 14 colored and black and white illustrations by J. Nicolson.
I do not know what he means by that, but when he says it, people always look at me and smile. I know that I am not beautiful, and I know that I am not a thoroughbred. I am only a cur.
I am an old dog now, and am writing, or rather getting a friend to write, the story of my life.”
This edition of Beautiful Joe includes:
• An introduction by Hezekiah Butterworth
• 14 colored and black and white illustrations by J. Nicolson.
- Pages
- 185