Mother Goose for Grown-ups
by Guy Wetmore Carryl
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About this eBook
- Author
- Carryl, Guy Wetmore, 1873-1904
- Credits
- Produced by Suzanne Shell, Melissa McDaniel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Mother Goose -- Parodies, imitations, etc.
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 50310
- Release Date
- October 25, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.MOTHER GOOSE FOR GROWN-UPS
- 2.TO CONSTANCE
- 3.NOTE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.THE ADMIRABLE ASSERTIVENESS OF JILTED JACK
- 7.THE BLATANT BRUTALITY OF LITTLE BOW PEEP
- 8.THE COMMENDABLE CASTIGATION OF OLD MOTHER HUBBARD
- 9.THE DISCOURAGING DISCOVERY OF LITTLE JACK HORNER
- 10.THE EMBARRASSING EPISODE OF LITTLE MISS MUFFET
- 11.THE FEARFUL FINALE OF THE IRASCIBLE MOUSE
- 12.THE GASTRONOMIC GUILE OF SIMPLE SIMON
- 13.THE HARMONIOUS HEEDLESSNESS OF LITTLE BOY BLUE
- 14.THE INEXCUSABLE IMPROBITY OF TOM, THE PIPER'S SON
- 15.THE JUDICIOUS JUDGMENT OF QUITE CONTRARY MARY
- 16.THE LINGUISTIC LANGUOR OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS SPRAGUE
- 17.THE MYSTERIOUS MISAPPREHENSION CONCERNING A MAN IN OUR TOWN
- 18.THE OPPORTUNE OVERTHROW OF HUMPTY DUMPTY
- 19.THE PREPOSTEROUS PERFORMANCE OF AN OLD LADY OF BANBURY
- 20.THE QUIXOTIC QUEST OF THREE BLIND MICE
- 21.THE REMARKABLE REGIMEN OF THE SPRAT FAMILY
- 22.THE SINGULAR SANGFROID OF BABY BUNTING
- 23.THE TOUCHING TENDERNESS OF KING KARL THE FIRST
- 24.THE UNUSUAL UBIQUITY OF THE INQUISITIVE GANDER
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