Four Fables

Title

en_US Four Fables

en_US Caxton Brochure #2

Description

en_US Robert Louis Stevenson

Creator

en_US Stevenson, Robert Louis See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:39Z

en_US 2004-06

en_US 1955?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:39Z

Date Issued

en_US 1955?

Abstract

en_US This pamphlet features a tipped-in picture of Stevenson in front. It measures about 4½ x 6¼. Its four fables are The Two Matches, The Sinking Ship, The Carthorses and the Saddlehorse, and The Four Reformers. In the first, a traveller in California, wanting to light his pipe, discovers that he has only two matches. The first misfires. He considers the second, especially that it could start a major conflagration. After all his ruminating, he strikes the second match. When it misfires, his reaction is Thank God! The Sinking Ship is a bit Biercian. The Captain of a sinking ship trots out logic to several audiences on the ship, only to be converted at last. He then smokes his pipe in the powder magazine. The ship blows up. The saddlehorse, encountering large carthorses for the first time, thinks that they must be great chiefs. After experiencing their bickering, he comments I was right. They are great chiefs. The four reformers go about abolishing everything. This short piece closes with their dramatic recommendation to abolish mankind.

Identifier

en_US 5040 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80633

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Caxton Company Printers

en_US Louisville, Kentucky

Subject

en_US Mini. PR5488 .F13 1955 See all items with this value

en_US Robert Louis Stevenson See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Pamphlet