“If you didn’t waste your time puttering and inventing, up in that rat’s nest of yours,” said Mrs. Riley, “you’d keep better track of what goes on in these parts.”
“Hmmmm,” said Uncle Swithin thoughtfully. “I wonder....”
ex “Uncle Swithin Swaps Waffle Irons,” in Uncle Swithin’s Inventions, Story by Wheaton P. Webb, Drawings by Rounds (1947) : 70-84 (73) : link
U Michigan copy/scan (via hathitrust)
ToC :
The Perpetual Motion Machine / 1
The Liar-Proof Fishhook / 14
Tromblador, The Electrocus / 30
Intoxicating by Horses / 44
The Educated Electric Eel /56
Uncle Swithin Swaps Waffle Irons / 70
The Horns of Dunder and Blitzen / 85
The Great Cat Experiment / 100
Wheaton Phillips Webb (1911-83) was a Methodist minister and writer; Van Wert, Ohio; Epworth Methodist Church in Toledo.
findagrave page : link
Four titles are listed at LoC :
- Uncle Swithin’s Inventions. (Holiday House, New York, [1947])
- The heart Has Its Seasons : A Sourcebook of Christmas Meditations. (Abingdon, Nashville, Tenn., c1982)
- The Dramatic Silences of His Last Week. (Abingdon Press, Nashville, [1971, c1972])
Subjects: Lenten sermons; Methodist Church--Sermons - The twelve labors of Wimpole Stout. Illustrated by Steele Savage. (Abingdon Press, Nashville, [1970])
Subjects: Family life--Fiction
16 September 2025