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Peter Newell, The Laughing Piano

Posted by Marco on June 29th, 2009

It was impolite, of course, but when Tabby started off with “Oh, promise me,” the piano couldn’t help laughing.
Peter Newell, from Harper’s Young People, vol. XV, No. 769, 24 July 1894, p. 664.

Peter Newell, The Straw Hat

Posted by Marco on June 27th, 2009

“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 Harper’s Young People, vol. XV, No. 774, 28 August 1894, p. 744.