Item
Fables and Fancies
- Title
- en_US Fables and Fancies
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Richard Gillham Thomsett
- Creator
- en_US Thomsett, Richard Gillham See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Davidson, K.M.
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:50:27Z
- en_US 2006-09
- en_US 1905?
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:50:27Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1905?
- Abstract
- en_US This little (5 x 7.5) volume of 83 pages and 32 pages of advertisements contains twelve fables and ten fancies. The first three fables are sheer word-plays, climaxing in 'scent' from Heaven, Dye it yourself….Diet yourself, and--from a cobbler--Soled again! The humor spreads out in the next fable when two boys exclaim here comes a beard with a man! The Horse and the Ass tries harder to be a fable, I believe, but it may fall short when the ass gets sick from eating hay that is too rich for his stomach. More engaging is The Parrot and the Urn (19). Punsters will love the close of the next fable, an argument about power between a king and a stilton cheese. The last phrase here is all mitey. Each story has a black-and-white illustration. My favorite among these is of the joyous frogs at Doctor Fox's office throwing hats in the air since theirs was a case of Patients rewarded (28). After a while here, the puns kill me.
- Identifier
- en_US 6086 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Henry J. Drane
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PN982.T566 1905 See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books