Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men

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Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men is by Juliana Horatia Ewing. The contents list includes Brothers of Pity, Father Hedgehog and His Neighbours, A Week Spent in a Glass Pond, Among the Merrows, and Tiny's Tricks and Toby's Tricks, among others. A picture is described in which the men wear black cloaks and masks over their faces, with the words Fratelli della Misericordia and Brothers of Pity written underneath. Godfather Gilpin replies that they belong to a body of men who bind themselves to be ready in their turn to do certain offices of mercy, pity, and compassion to the sick, the dying, and the dead.

A narrator tells of a dream of being deserted, chased along a housetop and falling from the gutter, and mentions wondering how Mrs. Tabby was getting on. A narrator says that to hear that Bad Boy called kind was too much for endurance.

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Juliana Horatia Ewing

Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885) was an English writer of children's stories and an editor. Her stories deal with children's lives and often with military subjects. Her titles include "Jackanapes" and "Six to Sixteen".