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    My Father's Dragon
    My Father's Dragon
    My Father's Dragon
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    My Father's Dragon

    By Ruth Stiles Gannett

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    One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street. The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so my father said, "Wouldn't you like to come home with me?" This surprised the cat—she had never before met anyone who cared about old alley cats—but she said, "I'd be very much obliged if I could sit by a warm furnace, and perhaps have a saucer of milk." "We have a very nice furnace to sit by," said my father, "and I'm sure my mother has an extra saucer of milk."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyline
    Release dateDec 5, 2017
    ISBN9788827528389
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    Ruth Stiles Gannett

    Ruth Stiles Gannett wrote My Father's Dragon just a few years after her graduation from Vassar College in 1944. She lives in Upstate New York.

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      My Father's Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett

      Chapter One

      MY FATHER MEETS THE CAT

      One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street. The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so my father said, Wouldn't you like to come home with me?

      This surprised the cat—she had never before met anyone who cared about old alley cats—but she said, I'd be very much obliged if I could sit by a warm furnace, and perhaps have a saucer of milk.

      We have a very nice furnace to sit by, said my father, and I'm sure my mother has an extra saucer of milk.

      My father and the cat became good friends but my father's mother was very upset about the cat. She hated cats, particularly ugly old alley cats. Elmer Elevator, she said to my father, "if you think I'm going to give that cat a saucer of milk, you're very wrong. Once you start feeding stray alley cats you might as well expect to feed every stray in town, and I am not going to do it!"

      This made my father very sad, and he apologized to the cat because his mother had been so rude. He told the cat to stay anyway, and that somehow he would bring her a saucer of milk each day. My father fed the cat for three weeks, but one day his mother found the cat's saucer in the cellar and she was extremely angry. She whipped my father and threw the cat out the door, but later on my father sneaked out and found the cat. Together they went for a walk in the park and tried to think of nice things to talk about. My father said, When I grow up I'm going to have an airplane. Wouldn't it be wonderful to fly just anywhere you might think of!

      Would you like to fly very, very much? asked the cat.

      I certainly would. I'd do anything if I could fly.

      Well, said the cat, "If you'd really like to fly that much, I think I know of a sort of a way you might get to fly while

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