Item - Animals that Dread Rain

(Motor Stories edition - source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)

Combined Summary

Online Full Text:	Digital Library @ Villanova University (Motor Stories edition) Project Gutenberg (Project Gutenberg edition)
Series:	Motor Stories — no. 12
Dates:	May 15, 1909 (Motor Stories edition) March 3, 2015 (Project Gutenberg edition)
Notes:	This short article, differing by only a few words, also appeared in the May 28, 1908 Freeport Journal-Standard newspaper from Freeport, Illinois; the June 2, 1908 Chilicothe Constitution newspaper from Chilicothe, Missouri; the July 22, 1908 Palmyra Spectator newspaper from Palmyra, Missouri; and the April 7, 1909 issue of The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times newspaper published in Albury, NSW. A further-abridged/rewritten version appeared in Our Dumb Animals v. 42, no. 9 (February, 1910), a publication of the Boston SPCA. The article was also reprinted as late as July 6, 1921, where it appeared in the Greencastle Herald newspaper from Greencastle, Indiana.
First Sentence:	Lions, tigers, and all the cat tribe dread rain. (Motor Stories edition)
Last Sentence:	So, when it rained, the naked primitive man and woman sat gloomily in the primeval swamps of giant ferns. (Motor Stories edition)