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Title
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Humorous Fables
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Little Blue Book No. 668
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Description
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Mark Twain and E. Haldeman-Julius
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Creator
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Twain, Mark
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:14:45Z
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1996-04
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1940?
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:14:45Z
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Date Issued
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1940
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Abstract
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After years of searching, I have found this booklet! I do not know how many shoeboxes of Little Blue Books I have searched in antique stores hoping to find #668! There are first two contrasting fables about bad and good little boys, wherein the humor arises--in the manner of Thurber--from the fact that the opposite happens from what is said in the books, in this case Sunday school books. Then there is a set of three fables about an expedition of (small) forest creatures. They discover first a set of train tracks and, soon after a train passes, a bottle of liquor cast off of the train. The fun here is in how they get everything wrong in their science. In the second, they discover a ghost-town and museum. The third begins with a hilarious translation of a human document and closes with a titillating find, a reference by these extinct men to lower animals, whatever those might be! The last fable is Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning (49), a funny piece about a hypochondriac wife and her obliging husband.
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Identifier
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2259 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Haldemen-Julius
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Girard, KS
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Subject
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PS1322.H825 1940
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Twain
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole