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050 4 _aPZ
100 1 _aGuernsey, Lucy Ellen,
_d1826-1899
245 1 0 _aTabby's travels
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-11
520 _a"Tabby's Travels" by Lucy Ellen Guernsey is a children's novel written in the mid-19th century. The tale follows a mischievous tortoiseshell kitten, Tabby, whose runaway spree leads to peril, kindness from strangers, and hard-won lessons about obedience, gratitude, and home. Blending an animal’s-eye view with domestic scenes, it introduces both affectionate caretakers and fretful, quarrelsome children whose choices shape Tabby’s fortunes. The opening of the story shows Tabby sulking after a scolding, slipping out of her comfortable home into winter cold, failing at a first hunt, and being treed by a dog before George Warrington rescues her. In the Warrington household she is cherished by gentle, lame Theresa, targeted by the ill-tempered Agnes, and sent to the barn, where the dog Carlo saves her from rats and becomes her protector. Theresa feeds and shelters her, while Tabby, hearing her mother searching outside, longs to return home when the weather breaks. At a Christmas-eve gathering the Merriam children discover Tabby’s whereabouts; soon after, Agnes spitefully throws the kitten into the snow and then falls dangerously ill, leaving the family unaware of what has happened to the missing pet. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cEdinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1864
653 _aChristmas stories
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aChildren -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aAnimal welfare -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aCats -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aHuman-animal relationships -- Juvenile fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77220
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