A True Story of a Parrot Mexie in Japan and Home
Polly Evans and Jacky chronicle a Japan trip meeting students and a Buddha sight, then a separate tale of Mexie the parrot at Mrs Heffelfinger's home. Mexie loved baths and spoons, entertained with tricks, and bade neighbors goodbye before dying after a girl’s toy bell harmed him.
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Japan
Polly Evans
Yokohama
Jacky
Auntie
Woods
Delis
Buddha
Custom House
Breakwater
Fair Nippon
Mexie
Teeeeie Pa
Moxie
Ellis
Mr. Hefelfinger
A Cut Out Game ERE Describes Skillful Recreational Toy
Describes making a cut out game from a pasted drawing on cardboard with dotted folds and corner holes. An arrow fashioned from a penholder is launched from a height to land on numbered targets. players use three urns and tally points until someone reaches fifty.
Child Mary Desires Circus Fat Boy Wonder
A stout girl Mary resists diet calls from doctor and mother. She admires a fat boy at the circus, asking aloud what a mother must endure to raise such a child.
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Buttte
Home Made Pen Wiper and Blotter Instructions
Home made craft lesson from Polly Evans' circle shows Helen Wilkins sharing simple designs for a pen wiper and a blotter. Instructions call for round cloth pieces, white paper with blue border holly motif, tied with red ribbon, and a plain or advertisement blotter with card backing.
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Polly Evans
Helen Wilkins
Helen
Shadowland Visitors at the Firelight
A winter night scene invites a parade of shadow figures. Tiny ponies, goblins, elephants, a dancing bear, rabbits, owls, Punch and Judy, and other creatures appear on the walls as children summon them with a wave of the hand.
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Shadow Land
Paste and paint blotter margin in old water color style
Instructions describe pasting a blotter over a sign with water color paper sized to match. A margin is drawn about an inch wide with holly leaves between each leaf and red berries. In the center, inscribe Biotter-io6.
His Definition
A classroom joke defines nothing as a reply to a sharp parental question about mischief. The exchange centers on a boy named Jackey and his teacher prompting a definition.
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Jackey
John
Fragmented OCR Wordplay Slices Creature Names
A list of cryptic wordplay prompts slicing words to form new terms. Each clue reshapes a base word by inserting or splitting to yield new meanings, involving a small animal, May bug, butterfly larva, and other items. The piece reads like a puzzle of linguistic cuts.
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Pius
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