Fraser, W. A: The Sa'-Zada Tales. v1. 15 Feb 2013
 

W. A. Fraser: (1859–1933) married (1889) Jessie Maud Barber. A Canadian novelist and inventor, he was born in Nova Scotia of Scots parents and educated at Westchester. He worked as a mining engineer in India, Burma, and Canada, before taking to writing and broadcasting animal stories. Thoroughbreds: A Sporting Novel (1903) is concerned with horse-racing in America. The plot hinges on a sinister banker trying to ruin the honest trainer by drugging horses with cocaine; the climax is when the trainer's lovely daughter disguises herself as a jockey in order to win the crucial race. Mooswa and Others of the Boundaries (1900) is a series of derivative animal stories (after Kipling) about Mooswa the Moose, protector of the Boy who is the son of the Hudson's Bay Company's factor in a remote area of Canada.

THE DWELLERS IN ANIMAL TOWN, IN THE GREATER CITY
FIRST NIGHT—THE STORIES OF WHITE, YELLOW, AND BLACK LEOPARD
SECOND NIGHT—THE STORY OF HATHI GANESH, THE WHITE-EARED ELEPHANT
THIRD NIGHT—THE STORIES OF GIDAR, THE JACKAL,
AND COYOTE, THE PRAIRIE WOLF
FOURTH NIGHT—THE STORY OF RAJ BAGH, THE KING TIGER
FIFTH NIGHT—THE STORY OF THE TRIBE OF KING COBRA
SIXTH NIGHT—THE STORY OF THE MONKEYS
SEVENTH NIGHT—THE STORY OF BIRDS OF A FEATHER
EIGHTH NIGHT—THE STORIES OF BUFFALO AND BISON
NINTH NIGHT—THE STORY OF UNT, THE CAMEL
TENTH NIGHT—THE STORY OF BIG TUSK, THE WILD BOAR
ELEVENTH NIGHT—THE STORIES OF OOHOO, THE WOLF,
AND SHER ABI, THE CROCODILE
TWELFTH NIGHT—THE STORY OF SA'-ZADA, THE "ZOO" KEEPER