Project Gutenberg 2004-10-30 Public domain in the USA. 43 Jacobs, Caroline Emilia 1872 1909 Elliott, Emilia Patricia E-text prepared by David Garcia and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Patricia" by Caroline Emilia Jacobs is a novel likely written in the early 20th century. This charming tale focuses on the adventurous and kind-hearted young girl, Patricia Kirby, as she navigates her childhood life filled with innocence, imaginative play, and heartfelt interactions with both animals and people around her. As she befriends a stray dog and seeks to find him a home, Patricia demonstrates her compassion while simultaneously getting into humorous and sometimes troublesome predicaments. The opening of the book introduces Patricia on a "fatiguing day," where she discovers a small, homeless dog whom she names Custard. Rather than simply dismissing the dog, she enthusiastically takes it upon herself to care for and find him a loving home, leading her on a series of escapades, including a humorous attempt to introduce him to various families in her neighborhood. Throughout her adventures, we see her thoughtful nature clash with the more rigid views of the adult world around her, particularly represented by her Aunt Julia. As her day unfolds with misunderstandings and lively interactions, the reader is drawn into Patricia’s whimsical yet earnest quest, exemplifying the joys and challenges of childhood exploration. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Girls -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature 137270 136830 2024-09-06T09:24:07.144238 2023-10-06T10:57:58.382355 text/html text/html 132013 2020-12-18T13:46:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 49226 2020-12-18T13:46:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 90654 2024-09-06T09:24:11.340172 application/epub+zip 93447 2024-09-06T09:24:08.336210 application/epub+zip 93446 2024-09-06T09:24:07.577208 application/epub+zip 177346 2024-09-06T09:24:13.414179 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 168559 2024-09-06T09:24:10.800179 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 97083 2022-09-07T13:25:47.044339 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 123692 123615 2024-09-06T09:24:06.715199 2023-10-06T10:57:57.981363 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 123420 2020-12-18T13:46:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 47232 2020-12-18T13:46:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 123435 2020-12-18T13:46:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 47224 2020-12-18T13:46:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19635 2024-09-06T09:24:13.543163 application/rdf+xml 10144 2024-09-06T09:24:07.925204 image/jpeg 2862 2024-09-06T09:24:07.754183 image/jpeg 90290 2024-09-06T09:24:07.156218 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog