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George Ade

Ade’s THE FABLE OF THE KID WHO SHIFTED HIS IDEAL*

Posted on March 25, 2026March 25, 2026 by John Lubans

An A.D.T. (American District Telegraph) Kid carrying a Death Message marked “Rush” stopped in front of a Show Window containing a Picture of James J. Jeffries (a champion boxer) and began to weep bitterly. A kind-hearted Suburbanite happened to be passing along on his Way to the 5:42 Train. He was carrying a Dog Collar,…

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Ade’s THE FABLE OF THE PROFESSOR WHO WANTED TO BE ALONE or How to Keep Your Head in the Clouds and Your Feet on the Ground

Posted on January 6, 2026February 7, 2026 by John Lubans

“NOW it happens that in America a man who goes up hanging to a Balloon is a Professor. One day a Professor, preparing to make a Grand Ascension, was sorely pestered by Spectators of the Yellow-Hammer Variety, who fell over the Stay-Ropes or crowded up close to the Balloon to ask Fool Questions. They wanted to…

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Caption: Illustration by Milo Winter for the "Aesop for Children", 1919.

Ambrose Bierce’s, The Wolf and the Feeding Goat*

Posted on October 31, 2025November 6, 2025 by John Lubans

A Wolf saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a rock, where he could not get at her. “Why do you stay up there in that sterile place and go hungry?” said the Wolf.  “Down here where I am the broken-bottle vine cometh up as a flower, the celluloid collar blossoms as the rose,…

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