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Mother Goose for Grownups is a delightfully silly collection of parodies on well-known Mother Goose tales by Guy Wetmore Carryl. (Summary by fink)

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...Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of these nursery rhymes are complete tales in themselves. There are others which are mere sugge...

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...Since this series of books is intended for all young people from one to one hundred, it opens with about eighty of the old MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES. Nothing better was ever invented to tell to little folks who are young enough for lullabies. Their rhythm, their humor, and thei pith will always cause us to prize them as the Babies' Classics. Editors: H...

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...ous vient ce Anne, ma soeur Anne, ne vois-tu rien venir ? In this book, published in 1742, Charles Perrault accompanies his Tales of passed times, by Mother Goose, with witty morals. In the French language, let us discover or rediscover what happens to Cinderella, the Sleeping Beauty and their folk-tales peers. (Summary by Ezwa)...

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...f the comfortable drawing room in which they were sitting and that still retained touches of her mother’s taste; an elegant room, richly carpeted, w... ... large farmhouse kitchen. Rosita Llewellyn had been companion and nursemaid to her since her own mother’s death when she was only three years old. R... ...en’s love for Gavin French. There was nothing about the girl that she did not know. Since Helen’s mother’s death, Rosita and Helen had forged a stro... ...r, had been devastated by his wife’s untimely demise and welcomed Rosita’s love and care for his motherless, little girl. The Spanish woman remembe... ...uld come and I welcome the release from my suffering and hope to be united soon with your beloved mother. My only THE CURSE OF KALI 13 regret is ... ...st on sharing her room and, more importantly, Isabel de Silva would think she was a fussy little goose. Why, she mused, should she worry about the g... ...pered gold pantaloons. He wore a gold pugree in the middle of which sparkled a ruby the size of a goose egg, The Audrey Blankenhagen 74 Nawab was... ...chicken pilau rice garnished with plump raisins, roasted almonds and edible silver paper; roasted goose; succulent fish in delicious sauces and a var...

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...y into salesmanship by draping from his arms the jasmine rosaries that his mother linked together from a long needle. One day, as that boy, had h... ... squirming around like noodles in pork soup. At the aunt's insistence his mother and father had paid for him to go to a poor Buddhist school run by t... ... and to have sold the parents' possessions after burning the bodies of the mother and father before the inevitable rot (a ubiquitous ordeal so individ... ...dictment of love if nothing else. I'm wondering what you think about your mother having four sons. Really five including the miscarriage." "I wo... ...stomp on you." "How do you know that the need to preserve DNA makes a mother love?" Jatupon whined sullenly. "I read it in a comic book." ... ...est of sensuality. To have resources and freedom to run around loose as a goose in a department store was something they all yearned for and seeing t...

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... period of some months, Lady B. was delivered of a son; she had before been the mother of two daughters only. Sir Marcus survived the birth of his so... ...uced to pardon, and once more reside with him; and was, after sometime made the mother of a son. The day on which she had him in a month, being ... ...eight this day.‖ ―No, my lady, (answered the clergyman) you are mistaken, your mother and myself have had many disputes concerning your age, and I ... ...nts to quit the room. Lady B‘s son with herself them approached the bed of his mother, they knealt down by the side of it. Lady ---, they lifted up ... ...HITE LADY.‘ One of the most attractive, blood-curdling, hair-raising, and goose-flesh causing legends in the whole history of superstition is ... ...itron-apple, Fuller‘s Thistle, Spikenard, Balm, Mint, White-beet, parsley , and Motherwort, which bear in leaves and roots a heart-like form are cong...

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... layers of incongruities. He had been born in Colombia. His father was a doctor, and his mother a Bostonian socialite. At the age of seven, his pare... ... of the Ruling Junta, and the insistence of his father’s family sent him to live with his mother’s aunt in New York, a fashion designer. Fearing dis... ...y said still unsure. “Senator, let’s stop this cloak and dagger stuff. Besides, your own mother wouldn’t recognize you in those clothes. So, what’s... ...ned a chronology of people, places and numbers. He sat down behind the desk, adjusted the goose-necked lamp and flipped opened the first book. The da... ...ne. “Aren’t we working on this together?” Brand asked. After a long silence, “You’re a mother-fucker, you know that?” “You’ve told me many times... ...ent on. As far as I am concerned, they are both saints, and should be blessed by the Holy Mother the Church.” Brand stopped. “…Aah, that was then, an...

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...be worth watching you crap your pants.” A twig snapped in the trees, and Frank instinctively reached for her hand like a lost little boy wanting his mother. “We need to find cover. A bear stalking us isn’t good.” She scanned the trees and vegetation as she whispered, “How many times do I have to tell you it’s not a freaking bear, Frank?” “How can you know that?” He shoo...

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...ted women, those who were having fewer children, to become 5 multiple mothers. Free education through the doctoral level was guaranteed for thei... ...as offered or up to five years. The caretaking parent, whether father or mother, was offered additional education for advanced college degrees afte... ...ong with lower taxes. A fanciful fantasy without fiscal foundations. It‟s Mother Goose without her accountant! Longer lives, earlier retirements, hig... ...h lower taxes. A fanciful fantasy without fiscal foundations. It‟s Mother Goose without her accountant! Longer lives, earlier retirements, higher pe... ...nd it more rewarding than cleaning toilets and small noses, the burden of motherhood falls primarily to those whose major accomplishments are non-ac... ...orking, you can see why the fertility rates are low. This not only affects motherhood and child raising, it also affects eldercare. Women used to hav...

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...ideas come to us from the ancient Greek poets and playwrights who told the stories of Oedipus unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother... ...ere‘s a lot to that pleasure drive. Most of the men I know complain that after marriage they don‘t get as much sex as they want. It seems that mother... ...al economics. No need to fight dragons when you are safe in your castle. ―That would certainly thwart their power drive and leave their mother... ...tholicism at Notre Dame? Might you be an imam in Turkey now? The point is that we tend to know what we have learned from our society. If your mother... ...life—and therefore how we will behave and live our lives. ―On the other hand, we can‘t often tell what our real motivations are. Was Mother... ... as yellow bellied slant-eyed sadists who would dive their bombers into American ships killing those nice American boys. Hitler‘s troops were goose-...

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...ill herself. Evit was too young to understand. He would think only that his mother was sick. Abri would become frightened if he awoke to find Zai tr... ...y ever left the house, his shoulders permanently stooped. TripStone and her mother hunted for him, impatient for FeatherFly to come of age and help ... ...spect its grain. Caring for her brother excused her from other chores. Her mother ShadowGrass tended to NightShout, who chewed listlessly on the gr... ...s a joke of the gods.  "I should throw it all out!" she had raged at her mother once. "I don't need the brushes and the pins and the fortune dice... ...ipStone frowned. "What about Masari history?" She heard the futility in her mother's voice. "Our history is written in our own bones." And in the l... ...s pelt he knew her back was clammy against his torso, her arms covered with goosebumps. When she paused in her drinking, he asked, "What is your nam... ...side her head, tearing her apart bit by bit. Moisture clung to her, raising goose bumps. FeatherFly's training would have to wait until the fog burn...

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...n should not Counterfeit to be Sicke XXVI. Of Thumbs XXVII. Cowardize the Mother of Cruelty XXVIII. All Things have their Season XXIX. Of Vertue XXX.... ...ored Ladies, Lucie, Countesse of Bedford; and hir best-most loved-loving Mother, Ladie Anne Harrington. http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montaigne/inde... ...Lady of Estissac (as if it were to you concerning your sweete heire, most motherly- affected Lady Harrington) and by his acknowledgement in this fir... ...im fight and conquere, or die (Lib. i. c. 41): Like the Spartane imperious Mother, a shield indeede you gave mee, but with this Word. Aut cum hoc; au... ... an instance, in doing wel by me (the meanest) as if honorable father and mother with their noblest sonne and daughter should contend in that praise... ...rt of a dragon that was exceedingly in love with a young maiden, and of a goose in the city of Asope which dearely loved a young childe; also of a ra... ... like unto themselves,and glorifle themselves as we do. For why may not a goose say thus? All parts of the world behold me, the earth serveth me to t... ... teacheth a hen, before any use or experience, to feare a hawke and not a goose or a peacocke, farre greater birds: that warneth yong chickins of th...

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...ounded upon a set of completely false assumptions, and has been led on a wild goose chase ever since: searching for non-existent things which don’t ... ...and blustering males in public… going home to be henpecked by their wives and mothers. Cowardice. Hyenas are notorious cowards and only attack whe... ...om birth, by the traumatic separation of a half-developed fetus from its womb-mother, separated by millions of years of tool- use, separated by genet... ...niversal Human Condition. The experience of a fetus being separated from its mother’s womb, is just as traumatic as the experience of a person bein... ...ng the universe into human terms, into human attributes: so the Earth became a Mother, the Sun became a Father. All early human cultures attribu... ...k to its roots. Back before even birth; beginning with the well being of the mother and father. Whether the mother even wants to be pregnant or hav... ...st… Oops. That’s too close to home. Which is my point. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander: If you THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter S... ... happiness that is instant. He suddenly becomes happy and jolly. He sends a goose to his clerk. He gives to a charity. He goes to a Christmas pa... ... And what was his gift to the Cratchet family? Dead meat. The biggest dead goose in London, so they could gorge their empty love-starved bellies a...

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...nt Diablo and through the rift. Her stomach quivered, did a little jig, and goose bumps erupted on her arms. God, she missed all of them. Did Regan ... ...to some- thing more? And Angus? She smiled. Who had the gruff dwarf found to mother after she’d left? Maggie would be ten now. How long did basset hou... ...as a birth certificate. Delilah Kinsey Brown was born September 6, 1980. Her mother was Kinsey Marie Brown and, under “Father,” Kelsey saw the name Be... ...ld have told me about him. She said my father died before I was born.” “Your mother kept Ben away from you?” “Three years ago, when I was seventeen, I... ...I was seventeen, I found a letter from my grandmother. In it, she begged my mother to tell me the truth. When I confronted her, she told me about my ... ... She’d even showed it to Duncan once, told him it had belonged to her grand- mother, and then her mother, and he’d asked her why she didn’t wear it. O... ... clearing. Their golden horns swayed in unison and a melodious hum that made goose bumps form on Kelsey’s arms filled the air. “My daughter is coming... ...were brought here, rather than to the new stable closer to the manor house.” Goose bumps had formed on Angus’ arms; now hot anger melted them. He whip... ... was an ever-darkening dimness. A chill wind gust- ed into her face, raising goose bumps across her body. A sudden sneeze exploded from her. Just ahea...

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...magic lies.” “Ah, but the theater is not what it was, my dear, when your mother and I used to… Alas, no one lives who can write the parts for an ... ... was the child they never meant to have, the last mistake in a marriage her mother always meant to flee and never quite managed. Until Morgan was bo... ... “My darling daughter, Morgan,” each one began. And they ended with “Your mother, Adelle,” as if she would have another mother she might confuse he... ...the curling letters of her name across the front. Miss Morgan Gable in her mother’s hand, on vellum touched and held by her mother — as she had neve... ...nd we both know you wouldn’t leave Ronan, or attempt to take a son from his mother.” Clicking her tongue at him, she mocked his scowl with a poutin... ... this absurd outfit you chose for me. I feel like I’ve escaped from Mother Goose. Who is your victim tonight? Little Boy Blue?” “I think you’ll ... ...them. He circled Morgan, appraising her. “Ah, so. Chasin’ after the wild goose, are ye?” Morgan stood stiffly and endured his humiliating inspec... ...st not as agile as I was. Falkner’s sister fattened me up like a Christmas goose.” “Falkner’s sister?” “Bridey. She brought me the last of the ...

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...nected and dependent upon each strand in the web. The great sun that warmed the Mother Earth, the moon that lit the night, even the stars that spark... ...aring and humming insect is holy in the memory of my people. We are part of the Mother Earth and the earth is a part of us. The perfumed flowers are... ...on­ sidered the old man an oddity, and a constant source of embar­ rassment. His mother, a blond-haired, upper crusted Bostonian, accepted her fate, ... ...that I have come to hate. It is filled with the stench of greed and deceit. The Mother Earth is poisoned, the web of life is dying. There is no one ... ...ld that is becoming stranger to me. I feel that my soul is dying along with the Mother Earth." "You have great sadness for the Mother Earth, and tha... ... The Director shook his head. "Alright, Robert. I just hope this is not a wild goose chase." "Just call the M.E. at Bethesda. Don't tell him anythi... ...t's your beef?" Brent was in no mood to take shit. "You've got me on some wild goose chase looking for a trai­ torous Army General, and to boot, you... ...o figure-out you'd be calling." Ryan moved to a drawing table and switched on a goose-necked lamp. "Here's our plan. I'd like your assessment." Tar...