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Title
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Strenuous Animals: Veracious Tales
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Edwin J. Webster
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Creator
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Webster, Edwin J.
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:07:40Z
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1993-12
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1904
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:07:40Z
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Date Issued
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1904
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Abstract
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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!
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Identifier
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1809 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Frederick A. Stokes Company
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New York
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Subject
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PZ10.3.W375 St 1904
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Tangential book
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole