Other editions of book Buff; A Collie: And Other Dog Stories

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... THE FOUL FANCIER IN the sixth round of his fight with Kid Feltman, the end came. And it was not at all the end that anybody but Dan Rorke and Keegan, his manager, looked for. For the outclassed and battered and wabbling Rorke won. Two minutes earlier, no one in the Pastime Athletic Club auditorium would have bet a cancelled lottery ticket on Rorke's chances. And the result left the crowd as puzzled as was the raging Feltman himself. No; Rorke did not see one sweet face in the throng--a face that nerved him to superhuman effort and victory. Nor did he spur himself to a Herculean last stand that won him the fight. That was not Dan Rorke's way. And most assuredly it was not the way of his manager and mentor, Red Keegan. The victory was won by subtler and less hackneyed methods. Here, in brief, was the procedure: At the end of the fifth round Dan had slumped back to his corner, dizzy and gone. Red Keegan's practised eye summed up his condition as it had summed up his chances during the past two rounds. And he whispered: "Time's come for it, Danny boy! He's too many for you." Danny boy needed no further amplifying of the order. Twenty times in the gym, under Keegan's shrewd tutelage, he had rehearsed what now he was about to do. Rorke rose sluggishly, groggily, staggeringly, to the summons for the sixth round. He swayed drunkenly towards the centre of the ring. Seeing which, the crowd screeched to Feltman to sail in and finish him. Obligingly, Feltman prepared to obey the behest of his patrons. He took no chances of a possible trick by laying himself open. But, with all the zest that could include caution, he went for his worn-down opponent . Rorke met the onslaught right gamely. He called on all his waning strength for one last desperate...

Another famous book about collies by Albert Payson Terhune that have charmed all dog lovers for many years. Most of his books were described to have deep vocabulary and sometimes difficult to comprehend but his works clearly show how much he loves dogs particularly collies. The chapters of the book contains The Fighting Strain, The Hunt is Up!, Masterless, The End of the Trail, Something, Chums, Human-Interest Stuff, One Minute Longer, The Foul Fancier, The Grudge, and The Sunnybank Collies. Albert Payson Terhune was an an American writer, dog breeder, and journalist. He was publicly known as an author who wrote novels about the adventures of his loving collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines which are still used today for Rough Collies. A novel was dedicated to the author, the dog in A Boy and His Dog calls his master as Albert. This novel was penned by Harlan Ellison in 1969 and was made into a movie in 1975 which was directed by L. Q. Jones. Albert Payson Terhune was born in New Jersey to parents Edward Payson Terhune and Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune. His mother, Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune, was an author of household management texts and pre-Civil War books under the pen name Marion Harland. Obviously, Terhune got his writing talent from his mother. He had four sisters and one brother, but only his two sisters survived to be adults, namely, Christine Terhune Herrick and Virginia Terhune Van De Water. Sunnybank was the family’s summer home and Terhune made it as his permanent residence in 1912. He went to study at Columbia University and finished a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1893. After graduating, he worked as a reporter for The Evening World from 1894 – 1914. His Sunnybank Kennels where he raised his rough collies were described as the most famed collie kennels in the United States.