[COMPLETE] Billy Whiskers at the Fair, by Frances Trego Montgomery - tg

silverquill · Post by **silverquill** » January 26th, 2022, 7:45 pm

adr6090 wrote: ↑January 26th, 2022, 1:01 pm May I please read 6 & 11?

Thank you!
I've put you in for these two chapters.

adr6090 · Post by **adr6090** » January 27th, 2022, 9:40 am

silverquill wrote: ↑January 26th, 2022, 7:45 pm
adr6090 wrote: ↑January 26th, 2022, 1:01 pm May I please read 6 & 11?
Thank you!
I've put you in for these two chapters.

Spectacular!! Thank you.

dalpert · Post by **dalpert** » January 27th, 2022, 1:06 pm

Hello Everyone - here's chapter 12 of Billy Whiskers at the Fair. Stay well, David (aka Seashell)

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/billywhiskersatthefair_12_montgomery_128kb.mp3 [12:01]

njgorgen · Post by **njgorgen** » January 27th, 2022, 5:19 pm

Chap 5 - 11m20s Nancy

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/billywhiskersatfair_05_montgomery_128kb.mp3

silverquill · Post by **silverquill** » January 27th, 2022, 8:57 pm

dalpert wrote: ↑January 27th, 2022, 1:06 pm Hello Everyone - here's chapter 12 of Billy Whiskers at the Fair. Stay well, David (aka Seashell)

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/billywhiskersatthefair_12_montgomery_128kb.mp3 [12:01]

Thank you for our first recorded chapter!
Stay tuned for your report.

silverquill · Post by **silverquill** » January 27th, 2022, 8:58 pm

njgorgen wrote: ↑January 27th, 2022, 5:19 pm Chap 5 - 11m20s Nancy

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/billywhiskersatfair_05_montgomery_128kb.mp3

Thanks, Nancy!
Marked Ready for PL

lomond · Post by **lomond** » January 27th, 2022, 9:58 pm

silverquill wrote: ↑January 22nd, 2022, 10:23 pm For those of you interested in this series:

I have two more ready to go after this: Billy Whiskers Out for Fun and Billy Whiskers Jr.

Then there are two about dogs by the same author: Zip, the Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier and Dogs and Puppies.

Interestingly, she also wrote what is considered to be the first science fiction book for children The Wonderful Electric Elephant. The only copy I can find online is from Haithtrust with a 1927 copyright date. But, Archive has On a Lark to the Planets which is a sequel to it copyight 1904.

Although Wikipedia does not have an article on Frances Trego Montgomery, I did find this short biography on IMBd

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2738237/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_smn
Born. February 18, 1858 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died April 5, 1925 in at sea between Hong Kong and Shanghai, China (cerebral hemorrhage)
Birth Name Frances Cooper Trego
Mini Bio (1)

Frances Trego Montgomery was a prolific writer of children's stories during the early twentieth century. She is best known for her popular "Billy Whiskers" series, which were about the misadventures of a mischievous but somewhat short-tempered goat. Many children, including the future President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, loved the books--twenty-five in all--and couldn't get enough of them. Other books by Mrs. Montgomery included an early science fiction book for children called "The Wonderful Electric Elephant." She died on board the Cunard liner S.S. Franconia while on an around-the-world tour; she had planned to write a book about her travels.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jane Margaret Laight
Family (1)
Spouse George M. Porteous (30 March 1910 - 26 October 1911) (divorced)
Hugh Monroe Stuart Montgomery (14 October 1885 - 3 August 1909) (divorced) (2 children)

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The article says there are 25 books but I can't find them all

Greetings -

More Billy Whiskers! Count me in! I am salivating but I think it is still from the kimchi soup mentioned in another post in another forum in a galaxy far, far away.

Don't know if this helps but https://www.dogsplayingpoker.org/bio/coolidge/the-wonderful-electric-elephant/ shows a copyright date of 1903.

Lomond

silverquill · Post by **silverquill** » January 28th, 2022, 12:22 pm

lomond wrote: ↑January 27th, 2022, 9:58 pm
Greetings -

More Billy Whiskers! Count me in! I am salivating but I think it is still from the kimchi soup mentioned in another post in another forum in a galaxy far, far away.

Don't know if this helps but https://www.dogsplayingpoker.org/bio/coolidge/the-wonderful-electric-elephant/ shows a copyright date of 1903.

Lomond

That's cool! It seems to be just the illustrations though -- which makes me want to read it even more!

njgorgen · Post by **njgorgen** » January 30th, 2022, 3:36 pm

Chap 13 - 18m10s Nancy

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/billywhiskersatfair_13_montgomery_128kb.mp3

silverquill · Post by **silverquill** » January 30th, 2022, 9:48 pm

njgorgen wrote: ↑January 30th, 2022, 3:36 pm Chap 13 - 18m10s Nancy

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/billywhiskersatfair_13_montgomery_128kb.mp3

Thank you!
In the MW Ready for PL

mleigh · Post by **mleigh** » January 31st, 2022, 2:28 pm

Here are my sections:

7
https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/billywhiskersatfair_07_montgomery_128kb.mp3
18:52

8
https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/billywhiskersatfair_08_montgomery_128kb.mp3
12:51

You get the whole Laughing Gallery Story at once.

Thanks,

M

njgorgen · Post by **njgorgen** » February 1st, 2022, 5:41 pm

Chap 14 - 11m27s Nancy

https://librivox.org/uploads/icequeen/ranchgirlspotofgold_21_vandercook_128kb.mp3

njgorgen · Post by **njgorgen** » February 1st, 2022, 5:43 pm

Whoops! Ignore the above - forgot the ending! Nancy

njgorgen · Post by **njgorgen** » February 1st, 2022, 5:58 pm

Chap 14 - 11m33s Nancy

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/billywhiskersatfair_14_montgomery_128kb.mp3

njgorgen · Post by **njgorgen** » February 1st, 2022, 6:02 pm

Can I take 9 and 10? Nancy