Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

“Oh, what have you done with your little straw hat, with its streamers of ribbons so pretty and gay?” “Oh, mother, dear mother,quite hungry was I, and I ate my straw hat, I am sorry to say.” Peter Newell, from … Continue reading →

A QUICK CURE MOTHER. “Don’t you feel able to sit up today?” BOY. “No, mama, I am so weak.” MAMMA. “Well, let me see. I guess you will be able to go to school Monday. To-day is Saturday, and –” … Continue reading →

An April Fool “Well, I’m a bigger fool, my friends, than I had ever thought on; I’ve gone an’ married me a wife, and find she’s stuffed with cotton!” Peter Newell from Harper’s Round Table, vol. XVI, no. 805, 2 … Continue reading →

Peter Newell, “Pussy and the Fool’s-Cap,” Harper’s Round Table, vol. XVI, no. 807, 16 April 1895, 416.

Peter Newell from Harper’s Round Table, vol. XVI, no. 820, 16 July 1895, 736.

A HONEY-LOVING grizzly-bear, In a great bee-tree made his lair; “There is a law,” he told the bees, “That honey sha’n’t be kept in trees. “I’ll take it out for you,” said he. “Nay, nay, sir,” cries the old queen … Continue reading →

There were three little owl that had slept all day In their downy nest in a dead tree’s hollow; Said the first: “It’s time to go out and play, I hear the good-night of the chimney-swallow!” “Oh no,” said the … Continue reading →

A HOPPERGRASS, one sunny day, Turning hand-springs amid the hay, O’erleaped himself, and fell into A piggin of good apple brew. “Shame on you, thirsty little one,” Cried the haymakers in the sun; The hopper took one draught, and then, … Continue reading →