#Albert Payson Terhune

[godzilla-reads]

My mother has quite the Albert Payson Terhune collection of collie books. These are fun to find, plus they’re great books for getting you out of a reading slump since Terhune’s writing is very anecdotal. When I’m in a reading block, my mom will often hand me one of these books to read.

#godzilla reads #Albert Payson Terhune #lad a dog #book blog #book collection #bookshelf #vintage books #old books #book addict #dog books #books and dogs #bookworm #bookish

[photozoi]

Illustrations from Lad: a Dog by Albert Payson Terhune. The illustrations are by Robert L Dickey, and the book was published in April of 1941.

Written in 1941 the stories are a tribute to the dogs of “the Place”, and emphasize just how much has changed in the way we treat our beloved animals now. I loved these books even as I was horrified by some of the ways the animals were “disciplined”. My first Collies were as wonderful as the Collies of the Place, as beautiful and as smart and as brave.

I like to think I was a much more informed trainer, but in actuality I was the one in training. I learned a lot from my Collies, just as I continue to learn from the dogs I have now. The illustrations in the books are wonderful, just look at that Saint Bernard from the early 1900s! I love old books.

#dog illustrations #Robert L Dickey #Collie #Rough Collie #Saint Bernard #1941 #from the book Lad: a Dog #by Albert Payson Terhune #Pekinese

[artist-issues]

(I may have accidentally clicked the Unfollow button instead of the Ask button, my bad!! 😅 Still following ya!)

I'm here to deliver you a fun question amidst a world full of negativity, and that is;

If you ever had the opportunity to create your own story/animated film, what would you want it to be about? Who would be the characters and how would you want to write their stories? Would you bring in subtle tenets of your faith, or go all-out Lewis/Tolkien and dive into analogy/Christian values? Fantasy or Sci-fi? Romcom or thriller? Adventure or something cosy and intimate? Any worldbuilding?

Basically, if you could write your dream stories, what would they be about?

Sorry if you've got a similar question before, but I am really curious. Your posts talking about storytelling and faith always fascinate me, and I'd love to know how someone with such a love for Christ and stories would go about creating their own stories 💙

This is a wonderful question! I can't tell you how wonderful. Thank you! I'm so glad you follow me still!

I guess I'd always lean more toward allegory, and fantasy. I don't know how to make a story that isn't saying something very intentionally about God and people and their relationship to God.

It's funny, my taste in stories is more intimate. My favorite Disney movie is Lilo & Stitch, for example. But I have a hard time boiling it down when I make my own stories, because I like to trace every character's motivations back to their source--and when I do that, I wind up world building without meaning to, for way longer than I planned!

I make my stories based off of the Invisible Ink model by Brian McDonald, with a few tweaks to the outline so that it makes sense to me specifically.

So I always start with a thesis statement, the Point of the Story, the lesson I'm hoping it teaches. Then I break it down by listing "characters that need to learn it" and "characters that believe the opposite of it" and "characters that know it already." And then how they all interact, and where they'll be by the end of the story. Fun stuff like setting and fictional history and characterizations come while I'm filling all of that in, kind of naturally, which I wish I was better at giving in to.

Anyway! On to the fun part of your question;

I keep my stories really private because I have learned that if I "tell" the story, even just in a summary or a tumblr post or a text to a friend, I lose a lot of inspiration and a lot of...mental freedom to finish the story itself. It's like once I say it out loud, that version of the story is final in my subconscious, and I have less motivation to tweak it.

So I don't tell people about my ideas. Not unless we're officially or professionally collaborating.

But this question is so GOOD and I so APPRECIATE IT, that I'm going to get over that and tell you about one, for example, that I started doing but probably won't get to make.

I call it "Come When You're Called" and it's a story about a sheep farm, from the perspective of the farm animals (but specifically the dogs.) The style is like if all of Ruyard Kipling's Serious Animals With Their Own Noble Cultures met Albert Payson Terhune's How Animals Thrive Serving Their Owners met Disney's Fun Anthropomorphic Animals.

The main character is a border collie named Sky Blue (she's liver-colored with blue eyes) who is learning the lifestyle of a good dog on her master's farm. She's very energetic. Thats the one word you could use to describe her. She never stops trying to play or have fun. She's proud of being the fastest dog on the property; the older border collie she's learning from, Sharps, isn't even as fast as she is. He's teaching her how to recognize the Master's commands and obey them immediately.

Sharps is excellent at what he does, but he's super irritable because all he cares about is the work. If he had a character arc, it would be to find his identity in how much his Master loves him instead of how well he can do his job. When he first meets Sky, he doesn't like her because there's a subtle fear that he's getting too old to do the work himself. He's very strict.

There's another older dog on the property. His name is Lockjaw but everybody calls him LJ, and he's the opposite of Sharps. He's even older, wiser, and downright jolly. He used to be the guard dog for the whole huge property, but he's been raising a young German Shepherd named Buckwild to take it over. Buckwild and LJ have southern accents and Buck is a very smart, good dog...as long as someone tells him what to do, and exactly how to do it: his default state is laziness. He becomes Sky's love interest.

Anyway, the music would be very highlands-folksy—think The Oh Hellos. Each animal species on the farm has its own "culture," but they all function like a kingdom serving their king, the human Master. When you're living by that code of obeying and fulfilling your purpose, the animals generally call it "Coming When You're Called." But if you are disobedient, lazy, or out for yourself, stealing food or killing the Master's chickens or whatever, you're twisted and looked at with scorn and apprehension by the good animals.

It would be super episodic. 🤷‍♀️ There's villain characters, like a pack of wolves that like to try picking off the sheep every once in a while. Theres also a tomcat who does not Come When He's Called, but just sort of does whatever he wants around the farm and causes mischief. Theres a tiny black kitten who Sky teaches what she's learning, about how to Come When You're Called, who wants to grow up and chase the lazy tomcat off and take his place. Stuff like that.

I have other ideas. One, in particular, I've mentioned before, got me involved with the studio I'm currently working in. It's an allegory to do with a siren, vampire, and werewolf in the early 2000s. But I'll keep that one to myself 🫢 for now! The story the studio and I are making right now is sci-fi fantasy adventure, about a family that needs to figure out their relationship to each other and the world they're finding themselves rulers of...but that's all I'll say about that until it's out there for people to watch!

Really I like creating all of it. I've got a sci-fi idea, three fantasy ones, and then an ongoing batch of monster stories, too! I guess I always tend to create as if my audience is...in that 12-20 range? But really, like Disney, I'd like it if my stuff could be enjoyable for all ages. We'll see! I think! I hope!

Thank you for this question!

#artistissues #me #dog fiction #fiction #writing #invisible ink

[linesonscreens]

Let's Read Peanuts (Yes, all of it) - February 1952

There are lots of great strips I just don't have room to comment on. I strongly encourage everybody to read the full month at the official GoComics page. Today's month starts HERE.

Feb 1, 1952

The record in question is almost certainly a song version of the poem “The Sugar-Plum Tree” by Eugene Field. I can't find a song version of it from around this time though so either it's been lost to time or it never existed and Schulz is just using it to make a reference.

Also, oh God Charlie brown is one of ~those~ people, isn't he?

Feb 3, 1952

Wait, what? *googles*

Goldbrick

verb goldbricked; goldbricking; goldbricks

transitive verb: : swindle intransitive verb : to shirk duty or responsibility

Apparently it's a reference to the act of paining a normal brick with gold paint and passing it off as something valuable.

Good word. Keeping that one for later.

Feb 4, 1952

I'm sorry, who!? *googles again*

Albert Payson Terhune (December 21, 1872 – February 18, 1942) was an American writer, dog breeder, and journalist. He was popular for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today's Rough Collies

Oooooooh... OK, that's kind of funny I guess.

Also, I'm noticing that this guy died almost exactly a decade before this strip came out. I wonder if this strip is supposed to be some kind of tribute.

Feb 6, 1952

Screw the haters, kid. This is a perfectly valid technique and I respect it.

Feb 8, 1952

You want to know why the radio man didn't have that record? Because Beethoven's Sonata #29 is 40 God damn minutes long!

Pretty though. I like it.

Feb 11, 1952

How is this kid even still alive at this point?

Feb 14, 1952

This is not a healthy relationship.

Feb 16, 1952

How on earth did two separate sets of parent's come to this conclusion about Charlie fucking Brown?

Feb 18, 1951

I just realized that Schulz makes almost this exact same joke later on with Lucy. I'll try to remember to post it when we get there (emphasis on "try").

Feb 27, 1952

Literally me including the part where he's bitching out loud in front of the other person while they're talking.

Thoughts:

I like it when Schulz makes a weird reference to something I've never heard of. It's a fun excuse to learn a new thing or experience some old form of media I'd never consider touching otherwise.

Probably won't dig up a copy one of the dog breeder guy's books though. That... doesn't seem like my jam.

#peanuts #comics #charles schulz #charlie brown #patty #shermy #snoopy #comic strips #peanuts comics #lets read #violet #schroeder

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

A video exists of A. P. Terhune and his dogs. This is wild to me

[smbilodeau]

A Night in the Lonesome October

Dedication, and A Night in the Lonesome October (prologue)

To --

Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Albert Payson Terhune, and the makers of a lot of old movies --

Thanks.

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I am a watchdog. My name is Snuff.

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#a night in the lonesome october #roger zelazny #annual read #dedication #prologue

[books0977]

Blundell's Last Guest, A Detective Story. Albert Payson Terhune. New York: Chelsea House, (1927). First edition. Original dust jacket.

Author's own copy, with his Riverside Drive, New York stamp on the front fly. A mystery, apparently Blundell's last guest treats him poorly.

#Blundell's Last Guest #Albert Payson Terhune #first edition #original dust jacket

[sunnybank-terhune]

Advert for the book Lad a Dog

#lad a dog #Sunnybank #sunnybank collies #Albert Payson Terhune

[pupperpi]

Hi, friends! It’s Fiction Friday time again, my favorite story time of the week! Today, we’re continuing Chapter 5 of our ongoing book, Lad: A Dog, by Albert Payson Terhune.

Lad has been entered into a fancy dog show, but he is miserable there with all the noise, cages, and homesickness. Let’s see if he can pull himself out of his funk enough to do well at the show! Or better yet, get to go home! 

#dog #doglife #lad: a dog #albert payson terhune #pupperpi #fiction friday #fiction #audiobook

[seattlemysterybooks]

philsp.com

September 1933  issue

cover art by Clark Agnew

Stuart Palmer, Murder on the Blackboard, (Hildegarde Withers), Brentano’s 1932 

Frederic Arnold Kummer & Basil Mitchell, “Adventure of the Queen Bee” (Part 3 of 4; Shirley Holmes & Joan Watson) 

Sax Rohmer, “The Witch’s Son” (Part 6 of 7), The Premier Magazine, May, 1914 (+8), as Brood of the Witch Queen; chapters 20-24, subtitled “The Sacred Lotus” 

Jacques Futrelle & Donald Rust, “The Man Who Was Lost"  

Albert Payson Terhune, “Jewel Jugglers” (Part 2 of 7)  

Rodney Blake, “The Mystery at Table Sixteen” (Riley Dillon)    

Arnold Fredericks, “The Woman in the Case"

William Corcoran, “Blood Money”

Seattle Mystery Bookshop  

#mysery magazine #pulp art #pulp cover #pulp magazine #crime fiction #mystery short stories #sax rohmer #jacques futrelle #donald rust #rodney blake #arnold fredericks #william corcoran #albert payson terhune #frederic arnold kummer #basil mitchell #stuart palmer #hidegarde withers #george jean nathan #clark agnew

[writerswritecompany]

#Albert Payson Terhune #Writing Quotes

[godzilla-reads]

I am very attached to some of my vintage dog-related books. I have a couple Lassie adventure books, and I love love love anything by Albert Payson Terhune and his collies. Actually I’m very attached to collie books, but dogs are amazing and I love them all.

#godzilla reads #lassie #lassie books #the further adventures of lad #Albert Payson Terhune #dusty the story of a wild dog #Thomas C Hinkle #book blog #dog books #books and dogs #booklr #bookworm

[incomingalbatross]

Characters being compared to dogs always use terriers or pitbulls or something for their metaphors. "They grab on and they don't let go" "They keep worrying at it until it's dead" etc.

Anyway, I want to see collies used as metaphors. Albert Payson Terhune style. "He was like an attack dog--making slash-and-run attacks, cutting them up worse every time, never staying in range long enough to get hurt but circling back over and over."

#90% of my collie knowledge comes from terhune

[kangals]

Stellina is the only collie I really know by name, so I thought of her when I learned that there's an annual collie gathering in my state at a site where Albert Payson Terhune used to live (author of books about his dogs, mainly collies I think). I'd be in heaven if I were there, surrounded by collies 😭 (link is an article about the gathering)

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/crazy-for-collies/

oh man i would LOVE to go to the Collie Gathering one day, it looks like absolute heaven and i'm only like... 2 hours away i think? or thereabouts. it would just be full of old ppl and constant barking but still worth it 100%

fun fact, stellina has some sunnybank dogs in her pedigree! im very flattered that you thought of her, i will happily nominate her for collie ambassador

[aestheticvoyage2021]

Day 137: Monday May 17, 2021 - “Lets Get Going, Blues!”

We happily cheered on the losing team on Monday and Wednesday night as the Stanley Cup Playoffs began another chapter and playoff hockey rang through the house, with the blue note waving from the flagpole outside and my Mom donning the jersey without question in hopes that it would bring my team some luck against the President’s Cup winning Avalanche.  But hope doesn’t win hockey games - especially in the summer.  Hoping a home crowd come Friday night can help get our cinderella to dance, and give us a little more the cheer for.

Song: Lightnin Hopkins - When The Saints Go Marching In

Quote: “Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.” ― Albert Payson Terhune

[televinita]

Top 100 Books*

(*As apparently determined by me years ago at age 19, the last age at which I could possibly have determined such a list, in whatever order I thought of them. It is very subjective and based entirely on my personal favorite 5-star books up to that point. It has no rules about how many times an author can appear, and “100″ is a loose guideline, given that sequels and sometimes even series books are counted under 1 number. Not all of the books on this list have held up, but a surprising number of them have.)

1. Black Beauty --Anna Sewell 2. The Incredible Journey --Sheila Burnford 3. San Domingo: Medicine Hat Stallion--Marguerite Henry) 4. X-Files novel: Ruins --Kevin Anderson (2020 note: YEAH THAT'S RIGHT. I will defend its inclusion still, tbh) 5. Harry Potter (whole series) -- J.K. Rowling 6. Firebringer -- John Clement-Davies 7. The Sight -- John Clement-Davies 8. The Mystery of Pony Hollow (& sequel The Mystery of Pony Hollow Panda) -- Lynn Hall 9. Wild Magic (quartet) -- Tamora Pierce 10. Final Grades -- Anita Heyman 11. Golden Sovereign -- Dorothy Lyons 12. Wild Horse Summer -- Hope Ryden 13. The Best Little Girl in the World -- Steven Levenkron 14. The Ark (& sequel, Rowan Farm) -- Margot Benery-Isbert 15. Shadow Horse -- Allison Hart 16. Wild Animals I Have Known -- Ernest Thompson Seton 17. Beautiful Joe -- (Margaret) Marshall Saunders 18. Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte 19. Charlotte's Web -- EB White 20. Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) -- Antoine de Saint Exupery 21. Little Women -- Louisa May Alcott 22. The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) -- Roald Dahl 23. Touching Spirit Bear -- Ben Mikaelsen 24. A Horse Called Dragon (& sequels) -- Lynn Hall 25. Silver Chief: Dog of the North - Jack O'Brien 26. Snow Dog - Jim Kjelgaard 27. Buff: A Collie -- Albert Payson Terhune 28. Julie of the Wolves -- Jean Craighead-George 29. Vulpes the Red Fox -- Jean Craighead-George 30. The Perilous Gard -- Elizabeth Marie Pope 31. Summer Pony -- Jean Slaughter Doty 32. The Boxcar Children (series) - Gertrude Chandler Warner 33. The Bear -- James Oliver Curwood 34. Moccasin Trail -- Eloise Jarvis McGraw 35. Quest for Courage -- Stormy Rodolph 36. Lad: A Dog -- Albert Payson Terhune 37. Dog of the High Sierras -- Albert Payson Terhune 38. Sign of the Beaver -- Elizabeth George Speare 39. Little House on the Prairie (series) -- Laura Ingalls Wilder 40. Nop's Trials -- Donald McCaig 41. Bel Ria -- Sheila Burnford 42. The Scarlet Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne 43. Comanche of the Seventh  - Margaret Leighton 44. Whinny of the Wild Horses --Amy C. Laundrie 45. Multiple Choice -- Janet Tashjian 46. Black Unicorn -- Tanith Lee 47. Broken Chords -- Barbara Snow Gilbert 48. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic -- Betty McDonald 49. Shamrock Queen (Always Reddy) -- Marguerite Henry 50. Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West -- Marguerite Henry 51. Black Gold -- Marguerite Henry 52. Brighty of the Grand Canyon -- Marguerite Henry 53. White Fang -- Jack London 54. Call of the Wild -- Jack London 55. Gentle Ben -- Walt Morey 56. Bambi -- Felix Salten 57. Shiloh -- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 58. The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams Biano 59. The Last Unicorn -- Peter S. Beale 60. The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare 61. Dr. Dolittle - Hugh Lofting 62. Outlaw Red -- Jim Kjelgaard 63. Island of the Blue Dolphins -- Scott O'Dell 64. Anne of Green Gables -- Anne M. Montgomery 65. Heidi - Johanna Spyri 66. Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte 67. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew -- Margaret Sidney 68. Peter Pan -- J.M. Barrie 69. All Creatures Great and Small (quartet) - James Herriot 70. The Little White Horse -- Elizabeth Goudge 71. Tomorrow, When the War Began -- John Marsden 72. Candy - Kevin Brooks (2020 Me: but...literally why?) 73. After - Francine Prose 74. What Happened to Lani Garver - Carol Plum-Ucci 75. A Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton Porter 76. A Rose for Melinda - Lurlene McDaniel (2020 Me: *SCREECHING*) 77. Briar Rose - Jane Yolen 78. Go Ask Alice - anonymous (2020 Me: *SCREECHING INTENSIFIES*) 79. The White Horse - Cynthia D. Grant 80. Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton 81. Lord of the Kill - Theodore Taylor 82. Leaving Fishers - Margaret Peterson Haddix 83. Pop Princess - Rachel Cohn 84. Make Lemonade - Virginia Euwer Wolff 85. Catwings - Ursula K. Le Guin 86. Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey - Margaret Peterson Haddix 87. The Hunger Scream - Ivy Ruckman 88. Blind Beauty - K.M. Peyton 89. The Pig-Out Blues - Jan Greenberg 90. It All Began With Jane Eyre - Sheila Greenwald 91. The Great Pony Hassle - Nancy Springer 92. Thunderwith - Libby Hawthorn 93. Smoky the Cow Horse - Will James 94. Wait Till Helen Comes - Mary Downing Hahn 95. When The Dolls Woke - Marjorie Filley Stover 96. The Cat Who Went to Heaven - Elizabeth Coatsworth 97. Golden Dog - Mary Elwyn Pratchett 98. The Seventh One - Elizabeth Yates 99. 101 Dalmatians - Dodie Smith 100. A Northern Light - Jennifer Donnelly

#at least half this list is animal books and that is a solid choice #i have made no content edits no matter how difficult #quality data #it also illuminated a bit more of my reading history to me with respect to middle and late elementary school #my stuff #also WOW i was not even aware that i read heidi so...tells you what a strong impression that one left oops #and i love that Teen Me apparently took to the Brontes but read 1 Austen (P&P) and decided it was beyond her grasp?? #p.s. i was today years old when i realized how significant the author of catwings is #top 100 books