Word: beman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LEARN ABOUT PEOPLE (75 pp.) -Delmar W. Beman Sr.-Exposition...
There is strong internal evidence that one of these books, And I Learn About People, was actually written by a cocker spaniel named Delmar W. Beman Sr. The author writes as a dog, in the first person, sometimes even breaks into doggerel. Sample verses to a watchdog: Watching o'er one's mind and soul, / Watching o'er one's kin and friend, / Make time and living worth the while, / Breed strength and sureness / And warmness of smile...
...Author Beman tells the success story of an intelligent young pup in the world of "dumb people"-how he became a hero by saving the baby ("new small people") from death in a bedroom fire, how he amazed "Grandmother People" by fetching her slippers every evening, and how he even sneaked into church one day and joined in a hymn...