The Humpherys Family

The Merry Maker

Record Added: 12/13/2009
Illustrator Multiple Authors
Series Young Folks Library
Setting Europe
Topic Collection of Stories
Publisher Auxiliary Educational Lea
Year 1945
Age 9-12   Pages 379
Description Tan printed binding
 
Contents Include:
  • Funny Leaves for the Younger Branches 
  • The Dragon's Story 
  • Precocious Piggy 
  • The Cheshire Cat and the Lobster Quadrille by Lewis Caroll 
  • Verses from Lilliput Levee 
  • John Gilpin's Ride 
  • The Peterkins Celebrate the Fourth of July 
  • The Reverend Mr. Trotty 
  • Up the River 
  • Queen Alice by Lewis Caroll 
  • A Rustic Drama by William Shakespeare 
  • The Knight by Lewis Caroll 
  • The Pickwickians Disport Themselves on the Ice by Charles Dickens 
  • Baron Munchausen in Russia 
  • An Experience n Changing Colors 
  • Till Owlglass' Funny Pranks 
  • Among the Lions of Algiers 
  • The Yarn of the Nancy Bell 
  • The Highly Respectable Gondolier 
  • My Double, and How he Undid Me 
  • The Jackdaw of Rheims 
  • New England Weather by Mark Twain 
  • The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay" by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  • The Dorchester Giant by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  • Limericks by Edward Lear: "The Owl and the Pussycat" and "The Jumblies"
Notes
Edited by Joel Chandler Harris (Brer Rabbit compiler)
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