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100 1 _aWelsh, Charles,
_d1850-1914
245 1 0 _aNeddy
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aIllustrated animal autobiographical series
490 1 _aCaldwell's animal autobiographical series
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-18
508 _aBob Taylor, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Neddy" by Charles Welsh is a children's animal autobiography written in the early 20th century. Told in the first person by a donkey, it blends adventure and moral reflection as Neddy navigates kindness and cruelty, work and temptation, and the hope of reunion with a beloved young mistress named Annie. Readers can expect a gentle, instructive narrative about compassion toward animals and the consequences of honesty and deceit. The opening of this tale follows a curious young donkey content in a sunny field with his mother, befriended by the kindly gardener Old Thomas, and then won over by the affection of Annie when her family returns home. Neddy learns to trust, accepts the bridle under Annie’s patient hand, but soon bolts in a burst of independence, only to be found after a night of misadventure by a village boy and returned to his overjoyed mistress. Early lessons bite: he fakes lameness to avoid a hated stop and is found out, then later truly suffers with a stone in his hoof, underscoring the cost of deceit. A lively interlude paints the bustle of country fairs and a comic “performing donkey” story. Trouble deepens when a spiteful servant, Richard, mistreats him; after tossing the boy in a market squabble, Neddy is seized by a rough man, crudely disguised, hobbled, and driven into peddler life. Small kindness comes from a child who feeds him, but he is soon hauling wares through grim industrial towns and ferrying fairground riders, growing tougher yet better groomed, and clinging to one hope: that someone, somewhere, will recognize him and lead him home. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBoston: H.M. Caldwell Co., 1905
653 _aDonkeys -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aBridgman, L. J.
_q(Lewis Jesse),
_d1857-1931
830 0 _aIllustrated animal autobiographical series
830 0 _aCaldwell's animal autobiographical series
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/neddyautobiograp00wels/page/n7/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78484
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