Literature
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The Man Who Did Not Go to Heaven on Tuesday by Ellis Parker Butler
The Man Who Did Not Go to Heaven on Tuesday was published in The Century Magazine, July, 1913.UNCLE NOAH PRUTT,…
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The Progressive Murder by Ellis Parker Butler
When Philo Gubb paid Mr. Medderbrook the one hundred dollars he had received for retrieving the Dragon’s Eye, Mr. Medderbrook…
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The Thin Santa Claus by Ellis Parker Butler
The Thin Santa Claus: The Chicken Yard that was a Christmas Stocking, illustrated by May Wilson Preston, was published in…
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The Two-Cent Stamp by Ellis Parker Butler
The house in Tenth Street where Philo Gubb was doing a job of paper-hanging when he made the happy error…
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The Un-Burglars by Ellis Parker Butler
Although Detective Gubb’s experience with the oubliette-elevator did not lead to the detection of the dynamiters for whom a reward…
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The Water Goats by Ellis Parker Butler
“And then,” said the landscape gardener, combing his silky, pointed beard gently with his long, artistic fingers, “in the lake…
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Waffles and Mustard by Ellis Parker Butler
Though you may think Waffles and Mustard is a story involving food, it’s really about detective Philo Gubb’s search for…
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A Song of Living by Amelia Josephine Burr
A Song of Living is the source of Burr’s most quoted inspirational verse: “Because I have loved life, I shall…
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Kitchener’s March by Amelia Josephine Burr
Kitchener’s March was published in Burr’s collection, Life and Living (1917).NOT the muffled drums for himNor the wailing of the…
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Our Bargain by Amelia Josephine Burr
Our Bargain was published in Fifes and Drums: Poems of America at War (1917).Is all our world upon a counter…
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