Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

William Pitt Palmer

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William Pitt Palmer

Was hanging at the fire to air, and to his great delight There was no servant in the kitchen-not a soul in sight.

William Pitt Palmer: Puppy

The Puppy loved his mother, had a docile, willing Said the Puppy to his mother, "When I had first mind, begun 1 To bite, and was not…

William Pitt Palmer: Filman

Master Filman, the inn-keeper, gave a little sniff as he left the room to see after these simple wants. He hoped to have made something out…

William Pitt Palmer: Thornley

Master Filman crept nearer as the horse stepped slowly over the uneven ground, and was just beginning to call out to the rider to stop…

William Pitt Palmer: Pebble

I am a Pebble! but who art thou, Rattling along from the restless bough?"

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