Hoot-Owl Classics, Being a Selection of Bed-Time Stories, Volume One

Title

en_US Hoot-Owl Classics, Being a Selection of Bed-Time Stories, Volume One

Description

en_US By Dean Collins

Creator

en_US Collins, Dean See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:11:41Z

en_US 1996-03

en_US 1928

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:11:41Z

Date Issued

en_US 1928

Abstract

en_US We read on the title-page: First Read Over the Radio from the Home Roost of the H G W Keep-Growing-Wiser Order of Hoot Owls in the Oregonian Tower at Portland, Oregon. This 54-page pamphlet features twelve delightful live radio scripts, up-to-date slang parodies of known stories given plenty of local color from the Portland, Oregon area. There are three fables among its twelve offerings. These are LM (13), GGE (27), and TH (41). Collins transforms LM quite thoroughly. The lion, looking for lunch, comes upon the mouse while the latter is working on his income tax. In fact, that is also what the lion is doing a year later when he walks into the net. Here the mouse comes upon him by chance, and the lion suggests that the mouse gnaw a few of these strings. The mouse makes sure that he is well tied up and then kicks him in the pants and walks away. And the moral of this story, dear children, is: The important thing is to know when you can get away with it (15). GGE concerns a financial scheme dreamed up by a son to save his parents' bankrupt farm. The race in TH is from Portland to NY. The tortoise gets himself picked up by a traveler. There is in this longish story, as in the other stories, some delightful play on words. Other offerings include songs, a history of Oregon, Pandora, Baucis and Philemon, Jonah, Goldilocks, and The Little Red Hen Re-Read.

Identifier

en_US 4328 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80000

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Rainbow Division

en_US Portland, OR

Subject

en_US PZ7.C68 Ho 1928 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole