Dumpling’s Cloud Voyage to China and Return
Dumpling is lifted skyward by a balloon then rides a cloud into distant lands. He lands in a Chinese palace where villagers treat him as a god. After adventures and a kite escape he returns home just before supper, unsure if the journey was real.
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Bon
Heur
France
Dumord
al-Jing
Dumpling
Sergie
Jing
Gome
Mire Seigle
Pons Dumpling
Seigle
Simapling
Horras
Vilage
China
Lost Dumpling
Tyre
Dempling
Nin
Xiol
Victor
George
Howard
The Light of the Firefly and its Lantern Like Glow
The article explains fireflies are beetles with soft wing covers and bright intermittent light. It notes regional varieties and the biology behind the glow, including a sulfur-yellow rear joints and light produced by nervous-system activity. It mentions a Brazilian firefly called cucatze and a large Pyrophoris brought as an ornament to the United States.
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Fieby
Famons
Brazil
Pyrophoris
United States
PONE BREAD Rhyme Highlights Southern Dialect Foods
A fragmentary verse recalls making puny bread and cakes from dough over fire with hickory wood. The speaker asks an audience about tasting hoe cake and ash cake and props up a rustic cooking scene with a cheeky undertone.
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Bobby Black
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