Unusual Spring and Ostrich Tales from California
The piece blends homey recipes with travelogue and humor. It recounts cheese straws, rice toast with poached eggs, and Washington pie recipes, plus long anecdotes about ostrich farming in California, fashion, and a pension fraud tale near Santa Barbara, all delivered in a satirical travelogue voice.
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North Carolina
Rhode Island
New York
Santa Barbara
General Burnett
Coast
Pension Bureau
Thun
California
Harlem
Thistledown's Courtship Ends in Humble Retreat
Torquatus Thistledown pursues marriage to Fanny Gordon aided by Job Gordon but Bruce Hardenbrook moves in. A kitchen trap, a locked door, and a mistaken marriage plan collapse when Fanny elopes with Hardenbrook after a chaotic chase. Gordon blames the fiasco on ambitious schemes and departs.
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Torquatus Thistledown
Thistledown Petroleum Company
Bruce Hardenbrook
Bruce
Thistledown
Fanny Gordon
New York
Thistiedown
Gordon
Job Gordon
Fanny
Mr. Gordon
Torquatus
Mr. Thistledown
Michael
Kathleen
Hardenbrook
Deuce
St. Bartholomew
Bastile
Mary
Hannah
Job
Papa
Albany Times Union
Tom Sawyer like tale of a sunburnt neck and lies
A brief anecdote from Tom Sawyer narrated by Mark Twain shows Tom being questioned about sunburned neck and wet hair after a swim. He admits to swimming and hides the truth with a series of evasive explanations.
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Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Tommy
The Licorice Plant Cultivation and Trade Route
The licorice plant is a small shrub thriving with water nearby and no cultivation required. Roots are dried for up to a year, cut into six inch to foot pieces, sorted for sale, and transported by native boats to Bus sorah then pressed bales to London and finally shipped to America for tobacco manufacture.
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Mr. Nye
California
Edgar W. Nye
Florida
San Francisco
San Diego
Philadelphia
Constantinople
Ocean
Santa Barbara
Do Good Society
Chase
North Carolina
America
Corral
Bussorah
London
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Zeke Bilkins
Gresham
Greahey
Mr. Vance
Buncombe
Gan
Mr. McDowell
Mecklenburg
Washington
Uncle Eben
Spotcash
Review of Reviews
Avenue A1
Market Street
Kentucky
Jakey du Bois
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