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R I G H T F U L O W N E
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Whittlesey House of
McGraw-Hill Book
Co., New York City,
New York, 1960.110 pp.
Illustrations by Robert G.
Henneberger.
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In The Rightful Owner Jesse Stuart tells the story
of Mike
Richards, who befriends a hound dog that
had been mistreated. He names the dog
Speckles and the two become inseparable
friends. Then, another boy of a nearby
family claims the
dog, setting up a number of dramatic
encounters, as each makes a claim on the
hound. In the end the hound decides who
is his rightful owner.
Stuart finished the manuscript of this
book shortly after the Russian satellite
Sputnik , the first manmad
satellite, was launched. In a
whimsical mood, he called this
manuscript “Sputnik 2” (“Sputnik 1” was the
manuscript for Plowshares in Heaven, finished
at the same time), because the two
manuscripts “had been launched in my
small literary sky” (Richardson,
Jesse, 372).
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