Curly and Floppy Twistytail, the Funny Piggie Boys
Chapter 12: “Baby Pinky and the Doctor”
by Howard R. Garis
Baby Pinky is sick and wakes up the whole household with his crying. They take her to the hospital to make her well again.
Baby Pinky is sick and wakes up the whole household with his crying. They take her to the hospital to make her well again.
"Summah night an’ sighin’ breeze,"
A part of a collection of short stories about three children in the revolutionary times. Marmaduke is at first left out of the baseball game and is very upset by it. However, he practices and he impresses the other boys when they let him join in.
"I ’s feelin’ kin’ o’ lonesome in my little room to–night,"
"By rugged ways and thro’ the night"
The prince wedges himself in the hole and is nearly drowned and unconscious when the princess saves him from his dark fate.
"Jes’ lak toddy wahms you thoo’"
ADIEU, New–England's smiling meads,
Lamentation for the loss of a loved one.
Mrs. Mixon leaves her home to move to the North where she can be somebody, leaving her lazy husband behind. She tells him if he ever makes something of himself to come find her. Come Christmastime the pastor at Mrs. Mixon's new church asks her to host a strange guest preacher who is coming to visit.
"I’s a–gittin’ weary of de way dat people do,"
O'ERWHELMING sorrow now demands my song:
Tom figures out the location of Jim. Huck and Tom come up with a plan to free Jim.
"Daih ’s a moughty soothin’ feelin’"
The Mock Turtle and Gryphon demonstrate a dance for Alice. As the Mock Turtle finishes his song, Alice is whisked away.
Bruno and the narrator discuss the fairy king’s dinner party.
"Kiss me, Miami, thou most constant one!"
Franz leaves the Island of Monte Cristo and heads to Rome to meet his companion Albert.
The various members of the St. Clare family are introduced to the reader.
"When summer time has come, and all"
"Dey ’s a so’t o’ threatenin’ feelin’ in de blowin’ of de breeze,"
"“In the fight at Brandywine, Black Samson, a giant negro armed witha scythe, sweeps his way through the red ranks….”"
With the help of a fox an old horse attempts to get back into his master's good graces.
A poem describing the story of a wine pitcher as used in ancient days
A merchant’s son spends his inheritance frivolously. He is lucky enough to get a present from a friend - a flying trunk. He uses the trunk to meet a princess, and to try to impress her. He tells the sultan and sultana a story, which pleases them. He puts on a fireworks display to impress all the people, but doesn’t consider the consequences.