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    It's A Long Life: A Poetic Celebration Of Life With Dachshunds
    It's A Long Life: A Poetic Celebration Of Life With Dachshunds
    It's A Long Life: A Poetic Celebration Of Life With Dachshunds
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    It's A Long Life: A Poetic Celebration Of Life With Dachshunds

    By Pamela Harry

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    The verses contained within this book capture the individual characters of the author's much loved family of dachshunds and their friends.

    By speaking through them and describing related events, she shows their mischievous personalities and gives an insight into their day to day lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPamela Harry
    Release dateSep 28, 2015
    ISBN9781911076018
    It's A Long Life: A Poetic Celebration Of Life With Dachshunds

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      It's A Long Life - Pamela Harry

      cover-image

      Copyright © 2015 Pamela Harry

      First published in 2015.

      This paperback published 2015.

      The right of Pamela Harry to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      .epub ISBN - 978-1-911076-01-8

      .mobi ISBN - 978-1-911076-02-5

      Smashwords Edition

      Thank you to all my dachshund loving friends,

      who encouraged me to publish these words.

      Contents

      ADDICTED TO DACHSHUNDS

      MOLLY

      PIPPA

      AMBER BEAUTY

      LEWIS

      WHEN DAD WAS ILL

      SOPHIE’S MISSING

      SASSY SOPHIE

      TESSA

      JUST ONE MORE

      BAILEY

      LETTER TO SANTA

      DOG HOUSE HOTEL

      KIDS! WHO’D HAVE THEM

      KIRSTY

      GEMMA

      BIRTHDAY TREATS

      MOLLY’S PINK BED

      MOLLY (1995-2014)

      DARCEY

      SOPHIE’S JOURNEY

      HUNGRY LEWIS

      DRAMA QUEEN KIRSTY

      GUARD DOG BAILEY

      PUSHED OUT DARCEY

      GROWN UP DARCEY

      NAUGHTY LEWIS

      AMBER

      DIRTY GEMMA

      MORNINGS

      GEMMA DEVIL DOG

      MOTHERED DARCEY

      DARCEY 1 TODAY

      DACHSIE BACK

      GETTING BACK TO NORMAL

      TESSA’S BIRTHDAY

      MY DAILY PICK UP BATTLE

      PIPPA BIRTHDAY GIRL

      THE INVADER

      ELSIE

      ADDICTED TO DACHSHUNDS

      Molly was my number 1

      My very first of all

      She used to be a showgirl

      Which she didn’t like at all

      And so her mummy sold her

      When she was nearly 3

      And I was oh so lucky

      That she chose to live with me

      Then seven years till Pippa came

      At only 5 months old

      Her first mum had returned her

      Soon after she was sold

      But with Molly now aged 10

      And Pippa full of fun

      We thought it only fair to her

      To get another one

      Why don’t you get a proper dog?

      My husband said to me

      So we settled on a standard

      To keep her company

      Amber’s our red beauty

      But she grew to twice the size

      Of the biggest of our minis

      With long ears and doleful eyes

      And though we had our number 3

      With only one month gap

      My dear sweet Lewis came along

      To occupy my lap

      I thought he was our last one

      And my husband thought so too

      But then I fancied

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