Strenuous Animals: Veracious Tales

Title

en_US Strenuous Animals: Veracious Tales

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Edwin J. Webster

Creator

en_US Webster, Edwin J. See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:40Z

en_US 1993-12

en_US 1904

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:40Z

Date Issued

en_US 1904

Abstract

en_US Eight folksy tales with a bit of slang reminiscent of George Ade. The tales generally go to show that animals--or at least the local ones--know what they are doing. Usually some local has a scheme using an animal in some unlikely way to make more money. So the imported grizzly trained to bring back any but cooked meat ends by blowing himself up running into a rock while he is full of nitroglycerine; the nitroglycerine was left for him by one of the local black bears whom he had earlier terrorized. Buster the bee gets drunk but returns repentant to take over his work as hive foreman. Bitters makes a great hunting dog (as well as a fighting dog) when his owner equips him with two inflatable balloons that make him much more fleet of foot--until a wily old wolf leads him over a fire. It would be hard to call these fables; they are delightful tall tales. The animals do go at things like hunting and fleeing strenuously; a phrase using the word strenuous occurs in each story. Lively illustrations!

Identifier

en_US 1809 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77375

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Frederick A. Stokes Company

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ10.3.W375 St 1904 See all items with this value

en_US Tangential book See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole