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Title
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Wildwood Fables
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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Arthur Guiterman
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Creator
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Guiterman, Arthur
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:12:05Z
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1995-11
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1927
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:12:05Z
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Date Issued
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1927
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Abstract
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There are here twenty-eight verse fables on 3-73, as the opening T of C shows, followed by Tales and Songs. Several of the fables formed part of a Phi Beta Kappa poem entitled The New Aesop, read at the triennial convention of Phi Beta Kappa in New York in 1925. The several of these fables that I have read are good for performing aloud. They carry a fable's lesson in enjoyable rhythm and rhyme. The Chant of Mikinak (5) tells of a soft-shelled turtle who finds himself everyone's victim and plaything. He toughens up by bathing in limestone and comes back. When he does not mind getting kicked around, people stop kicking him around. 'Where the sticks will fly and the stones will hurtle,/You mustn't be too sensitive,' says Mikinak the Turtle (7). In The Professional, the writer, an amateur fisherman, admires the Kingfisher as a professional who is glad for anything he can get and does not have time for talking or wishing. A Rabbit Parable (23) tells of a rabbit who had to yield the nice hole he found to a larger groundhog. The groundhog was killed by a badger. A fox challenged the badger, and they ended up killing the other. The meek rabbit inherited the earth! This sounds like the kind of poetry that would be fun after-banquet reciting.
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Identifier
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7874 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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E.P. Dutton & Company
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New York, NY
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Subject
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PS3513.U7 W5 1927
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Arthur Guiterman
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole