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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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LIFE
II
VI
Jap
Malee
was
as
disreputable
a
little
Cockney
bantam
as
ever
sold
cheap
Canary-birds
in
a
cellar.
He
was
extremely
poor,
and
the
negro
lived
with
him
because
the
'Henglish-man'
was
willing
to
share
bed
and
board,
and
otherwise
admit
a
perfect
equality
that
few
Americans
conceded.
Jap
was
perfectly
honest
according
to
his
lights,
but
he
hadn't
any
lights;
and
it
was
well
known
that
his
chief
revenue
was
derived
from
storing
and
restoring
stolen
Dogs
and
Cats.
The
half-dozen
Canaries
were
mere
blinds.
Yet
Jap
believed
in
himself.
"Hi
tell
you,
Sammy,
me
boy,
you'll
see
me
with
'orses
of
my
own
yet,"
he
would
say,
when
some
trifling
success
inflated
his
dirty
little
chest.
He
was
not
without
ambition,
in
a
weak,
flabby,
once-in-a-while
way,
and
he
sometimes
wished
to
be
known
as
a
fancier.
Indeed,
he
had
once
gone
the
wild
length
of
offering
a
Cat
for
exhibition
at
the
Knickerbocker
High
Society
Cat
and
Pet
Show,
with
three
not
over-clear
objects:
first,
to
gratify
his
ambition;
second,
to
secure
the
exhibitor's
free
pass;
and,
third,
"well,
you
kneow,
one
'as
to
kneow
the
valuable
Cats,
you
kneow,
when
one
goes
a-catting."
But
this
was
a
society
show,
the
exhibitor
had
to
be
introduced,
and
his
miserable
alleged
half-Persian
was
scornfully
rejected.
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