Humour and Dialect
Lover's Lane
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"Summah night an’ sighin’ breeze,"
"Summah night an’ sighin’ breeze,"
A poem about a son inquiring about his father’s amazing and peculiar habits for a man of his advanced age.
Doctor Dolittle introduces the Popsipetel tribe to the gift of fire.
A princess helps ease a cursed prince’s suffering and is finally rewarded by his curse being lifted. They live happily together thereafter.
A poem describing the perils our fathers went through to keep their homeland free.
Luke's trial commences and Doctor Dolittle is called as a witness for the defense.
"Gray is the palace where she dwells,"
Sojourner Truth addresses the subject of equality at the 1851 Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio.
The narrator ponders the many possible fates of the Time Traveller.
A merchant encounters a lion while on his journeys.
Stubb has a strange dream. The sailors of the Pequod go to work.
A poem about love using images of acient mythological figures
Years after the creation of the mirror, Kay and Gerda play in their families gardens.
A hare deceives many crocodiles, then mocks them, and the crocodiles pull out all of his fur in retaliation. The hare is suffering, and a fairy man comes along and tells him to bathe in the sea and lie in the sun to recover his fur, but the man was spiteful and his advice only increases the hare’s pain. A kind fairy man comes by and listens to the hare’s sad story, telling him his pain is the consequence of his behavior to the crocodiles. The hare agrees and repents, and the kind man tells him how to heal his wounds and regrow his fur. The hare correctly predicts that the princess the other men were off seeking would deny them and instead choose the kind man for her husband.
The men aboard a tiny boat discover they are sinking. The captain is hurt and unable to assist the men other than moral support. The men continue to fear each crashing wave that threatens to sink their dingy.
"Underneath the autumn sky,"
Dorothy heads for the Land of Oz with her blue and white checkered dress and silver shoes from the wicked witch. After she stays at a rich munchin’s house for a celebration, she starts off on the yellow brick road and meets a scarecrow who she saves from hanging on a pole. He then wants to join her to go to the Land of Oz so that he can ask the Oz for a brian.
A part of a collection of short stories about three children in the revolutionary times. On Marmaduke’s birthday he holds a birthday party for the various barnyard animals and persuades them with their favorite types of food. However, the animals misbehave and Marmaduke has to figure out what to do.
"Bones a–gittin’ achy,"
Doctor Dolittle and Long Arrow's discussion of natural history is interrupted by news of Bagjagderag hostility. Doctor Dolittle is introduced to Big Teeth, agreeing to accompany him in an attempt to achieve a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
"Who dat knockin’ at de do’?"
"Dey been speakin’ at de cou’t–house,"
The end of the Appalachian system in Northern Florida evokes the imagery of battle in the author's mind.