The story of Puff by Mrs. C. M. Livingston
Photography self taught by Lloyd I. Snodgrass is a children’s animal tale written in the late 19th century. The book likely traces the first-person adventures of a pet canary and uses his misadventures to teach gentle lessons about home, contentment, and the risks of chasing freedom without foresight. A young canary, Puff, is taken from his mother and raised with love by two girls, Rita and Dody, in a sunny “little brown
house.” When a bragging visitor-bird, Fred, tempts him with tales of grand living, Puff grows restless and runs away. He is briefly pampered in a fine home by a kind girl, Rose, but endures torment from a rough boy, a cat, and a dog; after Rose dies, the grandmother’s quiet care becomes his solace. An accidental escape turns into a frightening ordeal of hunger, night dangers, and a harsh winter among strangers, ending with capture by a neglectful family and misery under their roof. At last a kind man buys him—revealed as Dody’s father—and Puff is joyfully restored to his first home, where he learns the book’s simple moral: resist bad counsel, small wrong choices can bring long sorrow, and be content with good care and true affection. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Livingston, C. M., Mrs., 1832-1924 |
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| Title | The story of Puff |
| Original Publication | Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1883. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Subject | Birds -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Pets -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Canaries -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77391 |
| Release Date | Dec 3, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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