The Flowers Quarrel Under Moonlit Night
A night time garden tale of Bunny Rabbit and flowers led by Daffy Don Dilly and Miss Violet ends in tragedy when Dilly is defeated by a rival, and Violet mourns a rumored betrothal to Jon Quil. West Wind calms the quarrel as dawn reveals a sorrowful scene. Mother Goose is named at story’s end.
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Bunny Rabbit
Bunny
Daffy Don Dilly
Miss Violet
Jon Quil
Jon
Don Dilly
Daffy
Violet
Dog ‘Tooth Violet
Robin
Don
Moon and Mythic Water Riddles Echo A Child’s Verse
A compact, era tone riddle fragment asks about the moon, sun, rain, and gravity, then pivots to simple wordplay answers like Water and an egg. It references nursery imagery and a sequence of paired clues culminating in a playful verse about a singer. The piece resembles a page of children’s verse in a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper.
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Conundrums
Niddy
Noddy
Sister
Father
Little Miss Wringer
Miss Wringer
Holly Inn
A. J. Creamer
The
Harvard
Pinehurst, N. C
Pinehurst NC
F. H. Abbott
Fyar
Guilford-Benbow Hotel
Greensboro
North Carolina
Guilford Courthouse
Tlefield
Bethlehem, N. H
FP. H. Abbott
Pinehurst
N. C