The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
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The Rise and Triumph of the Great American Whopper , which arose from a talk he gave over the radio : listeners sent him tall stories about mosquitoes : over the radio he relayed one of these : others poured in , not necessarily about ...
The Rise and Triumph of the Great American Whopper , which arose from a talk he gave over the radio : listeners sent him tall stories about mosquitoes : over the radio he relayed one of these : others poured in , not necessarily about ...
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Two mosquito stories are worthy of perpetuation . A boiler - maker in Texas , working inside a boiler , was one day carried off , boiler and all , by a swarm of huge Texan mosquitoes . With their beaks clamped to the metal , they were ...
Two mosquito stories are worthy of perpetuation . A boiler - maker in Texas , working inside a boiler , was one day carried off , boiler and all , by a swarm of huge Texan mosquitoes . With their beaks clamped to the metal , they were ...
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The mosquitoes had eaten the entire cow , and were ringing the bell to call the calf . Fish occur in American tall stories even more often than mosquitoes ; but then , fishy stories abound all over the world . One particular story is so ...
The mosquitoes had eaten the entire cow , and were ringing the bell to call the calf . Fish occur in American tall stories even more often than mosquitoes ; but then , fishy stories abound all over the world . One particular story is so ...
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| Title | The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
| Author | Eric Partridge |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Philosophical Library, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802212794, 9780802212795 |
| Length | 107 pages |
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