The adventures of little Downy, or, The history of a field mouse
Subtitle: a moral tale
By: by Miss Black
Contributors: Engleheart, J.; Brooke, William Henry, 1772-1860
Publisher: Published by Dean and Munday, Threadneedle Street
Published: 1832
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Animal welfare; Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life; Mice; Boys; Morale pratique; Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse; Souris; Garçons
Other titles: History of a field mouse; Little Mischief.
Description: In Little Downy, a mother relates the life histories of a family of field mice to her son.
Notes: BM attributes it to Susanna Strickland, afterwards Moodie. Little Downy is attributed to Catharine Parr Strickland by Sara Eaton in Lady of the backwoods and by Michael Peterman in the Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature.

The copperplate frontispiece, engraved by J. Engleheart after William Henry Brooke, is dated Feby. 1, 1832.

The story "Little Mischief" is on p. 103-144.

Osborne catalogue, I:312