| Author |
Bittinger, Marillis, 1927-1967 |
| Illustrator |
Adams, Bruce |
| Title |
Tall tales of Cape Cod
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| Original Publication |
United States: The Memorial Press,1948.
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| Contents |
No kissing on Sunday -- The Cape Cod gold rush -- How Scargo Lake got its name -- The curse of Old Mother Melt -- Barney Gould -- It pays to keep the Sabbath -- Timmy Drew and the bull frogs -- The wrong gulls -- She had the last word -- The singular case of the young anatomist -- The mooncussers of Cape Cod -- How the fogs came to the Cape -- The peddler's coffin -- The whale that went to New York -- The snake biting Indian -- Johnny Blunt's courtship -- The trusting maiden -- Shipwrecked -- The enchanted mouse -- Ole Bill Hardy -- How Sophie got a husband -- The Orleans lamplighter -- The giant of Longnook Valley -- Cupid and the tree warden -- The singing fish of Monomoy Point.
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| Credits |
Steve Mattern, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
F001: United States local history: New England
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| LoC Class |
GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore
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| Subject |
Folklore -- Massachusetts
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| Subject |
Massachusetts -- Social life and customs
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
69718 |
| Release Date |
Jan 6, 2023 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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