The Fables of Jane

Title

en_US The Fables of Jane

Description

en_US Written by Harold Simpson; Music by Marie Horne

Creator

en_US Horne, Marie See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:29:04Z

en_US 2004-08

en_US 1910

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:29:04Z

Date Issued

en_US 1910

Abstract

en_US This is a twenty-page oversized pamphlet of music featuring four songs. Page 2 offers the lyrics for them all. An introductory lyric proclaims A baby's like a guinea-pig,/School crocodiles we know:/And men are hares or tortoises,/They're either fast or slow./And Mothers are like clucking hens/When children cause them pain;/So there you have in fables four/The history of Jane! I cannot say that I get the fable in either of the first two instances, namely guinea-pig and crocodile. In the third instance, Jane at seventeen is wooed by two men, one as fast as a hare and the other as slow as a tortoise. Jane asks her mother's advice, who notes that the hares among men will make love anywhere and advises going with the tortoise. Jane promptly does the opposite--and a month later ends up taking her mother's advice after all. The Hen tells a story of Jane's naughty daughter doing three things. First, she tells Jane that Jane probably did the same naughty things when she was young. Secondly, she runs away. Thirdly, in so doing, she makes Jane wish that she had behaved better as a child. Very good condition for a piece of ephemera almost one hundred years old.

Identifier

en_US 5135 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80718

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The John Church Co.

en_US Cincinnati

Subject

en_US M1619.H67 1910 See all items with this value

Type

Pamphlet