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Burgnacca and his wife

Tierra di Siena: Bambini in vacanza: Fables: Burgnacca e la moglie

MOVIE NIGHT: BETWEEN THE FOLDS

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Baron Münchhausen

Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen

• THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN
  By Rudolph Erich Raspe
  Published in 1895
• Gottfried August Bürger: Münchhausen

Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci

Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci, by Joseph D’Agnese and John O’Brien

BAD KITTY GAMES

Boeves Psalm

Brother And Sister

by Lewis Carroll

“SISTER, sister, go to bed!
Go and rest your weary head.”
Thus the prudent brother said.

“Do you want a battered hide,
Or scratches to your face applied?”
Thus his sister calm replied.

“Sister, do not raise my wrath.
I’d make you into mutton broth
As easily as kill a moth”

The sister raised her beaming eye
And looked on him indignantly
And sternly answered, “Only try!”

Off to the cook he quickly ran.
“Dear Cook, please lend a frying-pan
To me as quickly as you can.”

And wherefore should I lend it you?”
“The reason, Cook, is plain to view.
I wish to make an Irish stew.”

“What meat is in that stew to go?”
“My sister’ll be the contents!”
“Oh”
“You’ll lend the pan to me, Cook?”
“No!”

Moral: Never stew your sister.

Buying Turkeys

A man bought a number of turkeys at a cost of $60.00, and after reserving fifteen of the birds he sold the remainder for $54.00, thus gaining 10¢ a head by these.
How many turkeys did he buy?

536 Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney

BAT, BAT

Bat, bat,
Come under my hat,
And I’ll give you a slice of bacon;
And when I bake
I’ll give you a cake
If I am not mistaken.

The Real Mother Goose