Brothers of Pity

Brothers of Pity and Other Tales
of Beasts
by Juliana Horatia
Gatty Ewing

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Title: Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men Brothers of
Pity; Father Hedgehog and His Neighbours; Toots and Boots; The Hens
of Hencastle; Flaps; A Week Spent in a Glass Pond; Among the
Merrows; Tiny's Tricks and Toby's Tricks; The Owl in the Ivy Bush
Author: Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

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BROTHERS OF PITY AND OTHER TALES OF BEASTS AND
MEN
by
JULIANA HORATIA EWING
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Northumberland
Avenue, W.C. Brighton: 129, North Street. New York: E. & J.B.
Young & Co. [Published under the direction of the General Literature
Committee.]

DEDICATED
TO MY DEAR SISTER
HORATIA KATHARINE FRANCES GATTY.
J.H.E.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.

These tales have appeared, during some years past, in Aunt Judy's
Magazine for Young People.
"Father Hedgehog and his Neighbours," and "Toots and Boots," were
both suggested by Fedor Flinzer's clever pictures; but "Toots" was also
"a real person." In his latter days he was an honorary member of the
Royal Engineers' Mess at Aldershot, and, on occasion, dined at table.
"The Hens of Hencastle" is not mine. It is a free translation from the
German of Victor Blüthgen, by Major Yeatman-Biggs, R.A., to whom I
am indebted for permission to include it in my volume, as a necessary
prelude to "Flaps." The story took my fancy greatly, but the ending
seemed to me imperfect and unsatisfactory, especially in reference to so
charming a character as the old watch dog, and I wrote "Flaps" as a
sequel.
The frontispiece was designed specially for this volume, by Mr.
Charles Whymper, and the Fratello della Misericordia (from a
photograph kindly sent me by a friend) is by the same artist.
J.H.E.

PREFACE TO NEW EDITION.
The foregoing Preface was written by Mrs. Ewing for the first edition
of Brothers of Pity, and Other Tales. The book contains five stories,
illustrated by the pictures of which my sister speaks; and it is still sold
by the S.P.C.K. "Toots and Boots" was so minutely adapted to Flinzer's
pictures, that the tale suffers in being parted from them. Still, it is to be
hoped that readers of the un-illustrated version will not have as much
difficulty as Toots in solving the mystery of the Mouse's escape! I have
added four more tales of "Beasts and Men" to the present edition, as
they have not been included in any previous collections of my sister's
stories. "A Week Spent in a Glass Pond" appeared first in Aunt Judy's
Magazine, October 1876, and was afterwards published separately with
coloured illustrations. The habits of the water beasts are described with

the strictest fidelity to nature, even the delicate differences in character
between the Great and the Big Black water beetles are most accurately
drawn.
"Among the Merrows" has not been republished since it came out in
Aunt Judy's Magazine, November 1872. At that time the Crystal Palace
Aquarium was a novelty, and the Zoological Station at Naples not fully
formed--but, though the paper is behind the times in statistics, it is
worth retaining for other reasons.
"Tiny's Tricks and Toby's Tricks" as a specimen of versification might
perhaps have been included in the volume of Verses for Children, but it
seemed best to keep it with the "Owl Hoots," as these papers were the
last that Mrs. Ewing wrote. The first appeared in The Child's Pictorial
Magazine a few days before her death, and the "Hoots" soon afterwards.
The illustrations to both were drawn by Mr. Gordon Browne at my
sister's special request, and they are now reproduced with gratitude for
his labour of love.
HORATIA K. F. EDEN.
October 1895.

CONTENTS
BROTHERS OF PITY
FATHER HEDGEHOG AND HIS NEIGHBOURS
TOOTS AND BOOTS
THE HENS OF HENCASTLE
FLAPS
A WEEK SPENT IN A GLASS POND

AMONG THE MERROWS
TINY'S TRICKS AND TOBY'S TRICKS
THE OWL IN THE IVY BUSH

BROTHERS OF PITY.
"Who dug his grave?"
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