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<p><strong>My name is Stumps and my mistress is rather a nice little girl; but she has her faults like most people. </strong>I myself as it happens am wonderfully free from faults. Among my mistress's faults is what I may call a lack of dignity joined to a desire to make other people undignified too.</p><p>You will hardly believe that before I had belonged to her a month she had made me learn to dance and to jump. I am a very respectable dachshund of cobby build and jumping is the very last exercise I should have taken to of my own accord. But when Miss Daisy said Now jump Stumps; there's a darling! and held out her little arms I could not well refuse. For after all the child is my mistress.</p><p>I never could understand why the cat was not taught to dance . . .</p><p>That's the start to Tinker Nesbit's first Doggy Tale. Included in this tome of pets  -- Too Clever by Half The White Persian A Powerful Friend A Silly Question The Selfish Pussy Meddlesome Pussy and Nine Lives. Besides Tinker there are only <em>five</em> other tales about dogs Rats! The Tables Turned A Noble Dog The Dyer's Dog and The Vain Setter. No fair! We're dog people ourselves. Less cats! More dogs!</p>