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Not adapted to present day conditions; worth a tumble
The Star-Gazer. — It is worth a tumble into the ditch to be able to look up to the stars. It is as well to see the sky as the earth.
The Stag in the Ox-stall, or The Master’s Eye. — Deception is always uncovered by a true insight.
Compare with The Lark and her Young Ones.
The Stone-Broth. — Not adapted to present day conditions. This puttering is provided for by social conditions.
The swallow and the other Birds. — This fable suggests too many involved relations.
The Thirsty Pigeon. — Mere sensual impulses lead to injury.
Compare with The Dog and the Oyster.
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ex The Study of Literature as a Mode of Expressing Life / Fables — Justice.
By Emily C. Fisher — L. A. Hicks (Boston: Emily C. Fisher, 1903); The Heintzemann Press Boston.
UCLA copy/scan (via google books) : link
a different volume —
The study of Literature as a Mode of Expressing Life / Mother Goose — Humor.
By Emily C. Fisher — L. A. Hicks. (Boston: Emily C. Fisher, 1903); The Heintzemann Press Boston.
LoC copy : permalink
leads to (via hathitrust) : link
Emily Curtis Fisher (1866-1943)
propertied (I surmise) educator (taught English at Radcliffe, MIT, Bridgewater Normal School), suffragist, traveler (in 1937 “hired a cab to take her and three of her friends to Mexico City”)
from (interesting) profile by Norwood (Massachusetts) Historical Society : link
aside —
The Heintzemann Press was “one of the most interesting if not the largest printing-office in Boston... eight or ten book presses and about as many job presses... half a dozen competent men who made up into pages the type which was largely set by women. Those women worked for a living, being paid by setting type at piece-work rates. There was no composing machine in the place until the last year of my work there, in 1903.”
ex Carl Purington Rollins, “Fifty Years of Work and Play with Type” (An address delivered to the staff of the Library, the Library Associates, and their Guests, on March 23, 1948); The Yale University Library Gazette 23:1 (July 1948) : 19-24 (20-21)
link (Jstor)