Review: Sweet and sad simultaneously
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2012
If this were written today, I'd be looking at what would be considered double entendres all over the first page.  Given that it was copyrighted in 1879, the writer likely didn't intend them.  It is both sweet and sad and hi-lites the difference in how some pets were viewed in prior eras and in present day.