Category: United States

October 23, 2022

HOW A FISH SWAM IN THE AIR AND A HARE IN THE WATER. (The Violet Fairy Book, 1889) by ANDREW LANG

Once upon a time an old man and his wife lived together in a little village. They might have been happy if only the old woman had had the sense to hold her tongue...

August 12, 2022

Why Brother Bear Has no Tail (Nights with Uncle Remus) by Joel Chandler Harris

“I ‘clar’ ter gracious, honey,” Uncle Remus exclaimed one night, as the little boy ran in, “you sholy ain’t chaw’d yo’ vittles. Hit ain’t bin no time, skacely, sence de supper-bell rung, en ef...

April 30, 2022

THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT – (TWICE-TOLD TALES By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE)

There is an admirable foundation for a philosophic romance in the curious history of the early settlement of Mount Wollaston, or Merry Mount. In the slight sketch here attempted the facts recorded on the...

February 5, 2021

THE SQUIRE (REYNARD THE FOX, 1920) by JOHN MASEFIELD

An old bear in a scarlet peltCame next, old Squire Harridew,His eyebrows gave a man the grueSo bushy and so fierce they were;He had a bitter tongue to swear.A fierce, hot, hard, old, stupid...

February 5, 2021

THE GOLDEN AGE (REYNARD THE FOX, 1920) by JOHN MASEFIELD

Charles Copse, of Copse Hold Manor, thrustNext into view. In face and limbThe beauty and the grace of himWere like the golden age returned.His grave eyes steadily discernedThe good in men and what was...

June 9, 2019

FARMER BENNETT (REYNARD THE FOX, 1920) by JOHN MASEFIELD

Old Farmer Bennett followed these Upon his big-boned savage black Whose mule-teeth yellowed to bite back Whatever came within his reach. Old Bennett sat him like a leech. The grim old rider seemed to...