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Additional authors

1. Scoggin, Margaret C. (Margaret Clara), 1905-1968.
2. Steinberg, Saul

Description

1. 383 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

1. A selection of humorous stories for young people.

Subject

1. Humorous fiction
2. Humor
3. Humorous stories
4. Children's stories
5. Short stories

Genre/Form

1. Humor.
2. Humorous fiction.
3. Short stories.

Contents

1. Jack-knives from Heaven / Bob Davis -- Roof sitter / Frances Eisenberg -- Jane / Booth Tarkington -- New leaf / Sally Benson -- Third Triumvirate Manufacturing Company / Owen Johnson -- School days / Josephine Bentham -- Mr. K*a*p*l*a*n, the comparative and the superlative / Leonard Q. Ross -- Queens and quarters / Jackson Scholz -- Ole Skjarsen's first touchdown / George Fitch -- Stag line / Graeme and Sarah Lorimer -- The last patrician / Day Edgar -- Zenobia's infidelity / H.C. Bunner -- The chivalry of adolescence / Lee Shippey -- The rummy affairs of old Biffy / P.G. Wodehouse -- Gertrude the governess ; or simple seventeen / Stephen Leacock -- Father wakes up the village / Clarence Day -- Father opens my mail / Clarence Day -- Boggains in the Bronx / Arthur Kober -- Christmas afternoon / Robert Benchley -- How we kept Mother's Day / Stephen Leacock.

Call number

1. J 808.831 C

Title

1. Chucklebait : funny stories for everyone / selected by Margaret C. Scoggin ; decorations by Saul Steinberg.

Imprint

1. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1950, ©1945.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Added author

1. Scoggin, Margaret C. (Margaret Clara), 1905-1968.
2. Steinberg, Saul, illustrator.

Research call number

1. J 808.831 C