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Albert Payson Terhune

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The United States

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Young Adult, Nonfiction, Outdoors & Nature

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Albert Payson Terhune (1872 - 1942), a local author of some fame, wrote numerous adventures about Collies, most notably, "Lad, A Dog", "Sunnybank: Home of Lad", and "Further Adventures of Lad". Sunnybank, his home on the eastern shore of Pompton Lakes in northern New Jersey, was originally the home of Terhune's parents, Edward Payson Terhune and Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune. Later as his home with his wife, Anice Stockton Terhune, Sunnybank became famous as "The Place" in the many stories of Terhune. Much of the land once constituting the Sunnybank estate was lost to developers in the 1960's with the house being demolished in 1969. Fortunately though, the central 9.6 acres was preserved through the dedicated efforts of Terhune fans and dog f...more

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Average rating: 4.22 · 2,708 ratings · 129 reviews · 56 distinct works

	Lad: A Dog 4.24 avg rating — 1,620 ratings — published 1919 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Lad of Sunnybank 4.28 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1929 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Further Adventures of Lad 4.31 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1922 — 32 editions	My rating:
	Wolf 4.17 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Heart of a Dog 4.13 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1920 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Bruce 4.11 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1920 — 28 editions	My rating:
	Gray Dawn 4.24 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Treve 4.16 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1924 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Buff a Collie and Other Dog Stories 4.13 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Lochinvar Luck 4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Lad (3 books)
by Albert Payson Terhune

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

tags: losing , winning

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“Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man --spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort-- may become a dog's Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is forever that dog's God.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Lad: A Dog

tags: animals , dogs , pets

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“Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.”
― Albert Payson Terhune

tags: dog , memory

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