Animal Frolics
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1890 , 1890?
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A surprising find. Mother and I went to a craft show on the fair grounds. I finished early and invaded the antique fair next door. I have looked through thousands of books shown by antique dealers. I rarely find something. Books with simple animal titles or covers usually are not fable-books. So imagine my surprise as I opened this unlikely volume, large-formatted and cut to the profile of the lion walking on the cover, to find some ten fables inside! All but FS come with nice black-and-orange illustrations, unusual for the good match of the two colors' spaces by the printer. The Fox and the Sick Lion adds an unusual jackal as servant to the lion, talking with the fox at some distance from his master. The Porcupine and the Snakes shows a great snake-family dinner, complete with a high chair! The Fox and the Crocodile is rarely printed in books that present a few fables, for its meaning is hard to pin down. Here the mud in the alligator's skin-cracks supposedly reveals his vulgar origins. The dealer is Fr. Norb Lemke's cousin from somewhere in Iowa.
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McLoughlin Brothers
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1953 (Access ID)