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...tall tale about legendary Febold Feboldson, who solved the Indian food problem by blowing the water out of the ponds so that the ducks stuck in the mud. Febold also rid the Midwest of wailing coyotes by importing (from his friend Paul Bunyan) a hundred gross of whimpering whingdings (indescribably mournful creatures who made the coyotes die of grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Welver Eht Rof Ebircsbus | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...CHILDREN-Carl Carmer-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Collection of 20 freshly-collected U. S. folk tales, interspersed with roaring prose poems, about the tall doings of such giant standbys as Paul Bunyan, such lesser-known U. S. genii as Ichabod Paddock and Kemp Morgan, a Nebraska newcomer named Febold Feboldsen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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