The Second St. Nicholas Anthology

When my brother and I were young, our parents gave us both the St, Nicholas anthologies, and we happily shared them for years.; When the family library was finally broken up, he took the first and I took the second, because the second includes my most favorite stories, Charles Carryl's "Davy and

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the Goblin" and Frank Stockton's "The Floating Prince" and its sequel "How the Aristocrats Sailed Away." as well as "The Injia Rubber Tree" a comic poem I still remembered well enough 50 years or so later to win an SCA Sylvan Bard contest with it. BY no means all of it is fantasy; it includes historical pieces and memoirs and more serious or at least more realistic stories.

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