Gobolinks; or, Shadow Pictures for Young and Old
by Albert Bigelow Paine Ruth McEnery Stuart
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Chapters (174)(click to expand)
- Gobolinks
- Shadow-Pictures
- DEDICATION
- TO OLD FRIENDS WITH YOUNG HEARTS AND YOUNG HEARTS GROWING OLD.
- THE GOBOLINK AND HOW TO MAKE HIM.
- THE GAME OF GOBOLINK.
- CONTENTS.
- Gobolinks
- THE DRUM MAJOR
- THE SOMETHINGS
- THE BUBBLERS
- THE JACK-O-MY-GOBLIN
- THE FRIENDLY CHICKENS
- THEY STAYED AT HOME
- THE UNFRIENDLY CHICKENS
- THE BUTTERFLY
- DIPSEY DOODLE..
- HIS RELATIVE
- A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE
- THE MASK
- HUMAN NATURE?
- RED RIDING-HOOD'S WOLF
- WITCH BROTH
- JUST LIKE OTHER CHILDREN
- A SEA-DANCE
- THE SINGERS
- THE BIRDS AND THE WIRE
- A HARD QUESTION
- THE MOON DANCE
- PREHISTORIC ANIMALS
- THE GRACEFUL POLLY-WOGS
- A SOUTH-SEA IDOL
- PREPARING FOR WINTER
- THE BATHERS
- THE BAD BOY
- BROTHERLY CONSOLATION
- THE BUTTERFLY MAN
- THE TRANSFERRED SMILE
- THE ROYAL GROTTO
- THE MODEST MISS KANGAROO
- THE GARGOYLE
- THE ELF PARTY
- UNPLEASANT COMPANIONS
- THE GRENADIER
- KINGS' JESTERS
- THE FUNNY OCTOPUS
- THE NYMPHS AND THE OSTRICHES
- A CONVENIENCE
- ENTOMOLOGY
- FOX AND GEESE
- THE TAIL OF TADDY POLE
- THE ARABESQUE
- THE GOBOLINKS' MIRROR
- WIND MAIDENS
- THE PUGILISTS
- WHAT THEY LEFT
- GOBOLINK HORSES
- MISS F.M. DE LISLE
- FANNIE'S CURLING-TONGS
- THE BEARS AND THE HARLEQUINS.
- THE FAITHFUL NOTES
- THE POLITE COLLY-WOBBLES
- THE BRAVE WARRIORS
- STEEPLE MEN
- THE SHEET-AND-PILLOW PARTY
- MOSS-BACKS
- A WHAT-IS-IT
- THE MERRY WATER-WEEDLES
- A NARROW ESCAPE
- THE CAPTIVES
- THE VICIOUS GOLLY-POPS
- THE DIVERS
- THE SHADOW-HARP
- A GLAD RETURN
- GROTESQUES
- SHADOW-CRESTS
- A FRONTIER COAT-OF-ARMS
- THE FANCIFUL ELK
- T' OTHER AND WHICH
- CATHODES
- IN THE X-RAY
- A BEETLEVILLE DANCE
- QUEEN BEETLE
- BEETLES
- KING BEETLE
- OUR PET
- GOOD BREEDING
- THE WASHERWOMEN
- A MARINE BALL
- THE QUEER MOLLUSKS
- SEAWEEDS
- FINIS
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