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This is the story of Sunnybank, the lovely home on the shore of Pompton Lake, where Albert Payson Terhune and all his famous collies lived. Here lived such gallant dogs as Lad, Wolf. Buff, Gray Dawn, Treve and the many canine heroes of Terhune's immortal stories. Here also lived Chips, the comical rat-catching terrier, and all the "little people," as the master called the animals of Sunnybank who became the family pets.
And herein is an account of the Sunnybank country where Albert Payson Terhune spent nearly all of his life. In this ancient home his widow still dwells among the mementos of a long full life. Here is the grave of Lad, most famous of all dogs, and of blind Fair Ellen, favorite of millions of people through the author's stories.
To this quiet retreat surrounded by noble trees visitors still come to visit the scenes of Lad's stirring adventures at Sunnybank. Every reader of the Terhune books will wish to read also this intimate story of the author's home and of his human and canine friends. It remains just as he left it. Only the kennels where Laddie used to frisk and play are empty now.
—from the dust jacket
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