Pep begins as a blue-ribbon show dog, runs away, and finds his true master in a doctor bound for the war in France. On the crossing he leaps fifty feet into a raging sea to save a girl named Hilda, and at the front he works with the hospital, searching the battlefield for the wounded before at last heading home. Hawkes opens with a short essay on the dog as man’s friend.
A stirring animal story for young readers by a writer who lost his sight as a boy yet wrote vividly of nature. Download the free EPUB.