This project is now in our catalog at https://librivox.org/frontier-humor-in-verse-prose-and-picture-by-palmer-cox/
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64642Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short prose vignettes, From the publisher's preface, "thrice happy is the man who, having seen, can tell the fun; and having told, can picture it for others’ eyes and so roll on the rollicking humor, for the brightening of a world already far too sad." (Summary by Larry Wilson)
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Genres for the project: Poetry/Single author; Humorous Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: comedy, humor, verse, wit, comic, lyric, canadian literature, yarns, poetty, laugther
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End of recording:"Section # of Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture, by Palmer Cox. Section Title."
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