It is not hard to see how gentle bodies who had no other friends should make comrades of the little folk in fur and fins and feathers.
Abbie Farwell Brown
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts (1900), introductory note; Complete sentence from Brown’s introduction about companionship with animals. Title page, 1900 copyright and complete introductory note read. Brown’s prose, not the preceding Saint Guthlac epigraph or words spoken by Saint Francis. Li
- The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts (1900), introductory note
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