Need Help - Talking Collie?

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Hi, I hope someone out there can help. My aunt is in her 70’s, and recently reminisced about her childhood. She fondly remembers a book series that featured either an Englishman or someone from Wales, and a talking collie. The stories were humorous, and she thinks the original story came from a magazine.

I’d love to find her a copy of these stories, if I only knew the name.
Thanks in advance!
-Wallet-

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I don’t know if this may be what you’re looking for, but I did some googling and came up with this…

www.time.com/time/archive/ preview/0,10987,933553,00.html

Now, unfortunately, I couldn’t get anything to come up from that link, but the blurb accompanying it said:

“One afternoon 50-year-old Alfred Brissenden, a night watchman, was taking a dish of tea with his wife in their cottage on Green Street, Royston, …”

and (I think) a publish date of 8-26-1946.

Hope that’ll help some.

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Your link pulls up an error page for Time Magazine, can you give your search parameters, and what you clicked on to bring up the link so that we can duplicate your results?

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I googled “talking dog magazine” and got the same link ( http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,933553,00.html ). I’m guessing it’s the correct stoty, except it’s a smooth wirehaired fox terrier, not a collie.

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Thanks so much for the help - unfortunately, my aunt does not think this is the same book.

Would anyone know the name of the website where you pay to find out the titles of old, forgotten classics?

Thanks again!
-Wallet-

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Black Bob, perhaps?

http://www.tonystrading.co.uk/galleries/annuals/blackbob.htm

Just a couple of points: firstly his owner was Scottish (Andrae Glenn) secondly, I don’t think the dog talked.

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Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune? It has the Englishman, and the collie, and the stories were originally published in magazines, but I don’t think the dog talks. There’s some “internal dog voice”, what the dog is thinking - maybe that’s it?

The website you’re asking about is Loganberry Books Stump the Bookseller!

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Thanks for the leads, everyone. None of them rang a bell for my aunt, but I will try Stump the Bookseller.

Thanks again! :slight_smile: