Cold Noses and Warm Hearts: Beloved Dog Stories

by Morrow, Laurie

• ISBN13: 9781595434418
• ISBN10: 1595434410
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: Willow Creek Pr

Summary

When originally published in 1959, this marvelous collection of dog stories compiled by the late humorist Corey Ford was an immediate bestseller. For his edition, Ford selected pieces written by his friends and contemporaries whose names appeared on the mastheads of The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Life, and Colliers. The names read like a Who's Who of humor: Thurber, Benchley. Wodehouse, White, Woollcott, Marquis. Ford also provided balance with stories from Steinbeck, Lardner, Lawrence and others. including his own superbly poignant, classic short, "The Road to Tinkhamtown," presented here in its original version. Laurie Morrow, in this revised collection, has retained these writers and authors while omitting those whose work didn't "travel as exceedingly well through time." In their place she includes engaging stories of a more serious bent by both famed and newer writers. These focus on working dogs that are also companions and helpmates. All the stories in Cold Noses and Warm Hearts share the same theme, whether underscored by humor or deep emotion: the strong, enigmatic bond between dog and master.

Table of Contents

Introduction	11	(2)
By Laurie Morrow
Parapups	13	(8)
By Corey Ford
Random Thoughts on Random Dogs	21	(6)
By John Steinbeck
Dogs	27	(6)
By Ring Lardner
How to Name a Dog	33	(10)
By James Thurber
The Fighting Strain	43	(30)
By Albert Payson Terhune
The Care and Training of a Dog	73	(6)
By E.B. White
Robin	79	(16)
By Jim Corbett
Your Boy and His Dog	95	(8)
By Robert Benchley
Being a Public Character	103	(12)
By Don Marquis
A Very Shy Gentleman	115	(20)
By P.G. Wodehouse
Ulysses and the Dogman	135	(10)
By O. Henry
Buffalo Hunt	145	(12)
By J.A. Hunter
Verdun Belle	157	(8)
By Alexander Woollcott
Some Dogs	165	(16)
By E.C. Keith
With the Cougar Hounds	181	(22)
By Theodore Roosevelt
Rex	203	(14)
By D.H. Lawrence
The Road to Tinkhamtown	217
By Corey Ford