Henry Carter Hull

One day Benny the woodpecker awakens to the best tummy-rumbling smell ever and discovers it’s something called waffles. He must taste them!He pecks on the door of the waffle house, but he gets the boot.He tries to sneak in, but he gets swept away.Each time Benny tries, he just can’t seem to get to those delicious waffles. The other forest animals laugh at him: “Woodpeckers don’t eat waffles!” they say. But Benny has a brilliant plan. . ....

#Tryharder is about taking a moment to stop and do the right thing. To try a little harder in life and to be aware of the people and the world around you. To do right by others and make the additional effort to improve not just your situation but theirs as well.

Get the Monkey Off Your Back Food is a drug. Break the shackles of addiction and learn to eat air! In this detailed guide, Dr. Robert Jones, MD, PhD, DDS, ODD gives you the practical, step-by-step advice you need to transition to the air-only diet. Common Questions About the Air-Only Diet: Q: Eating air? Are you crazy? A: I am a medical doctor with more than forty years of clinical experience. An Obesity Epidemic is sweeping across our great...

Jean Webster was the pseudonym used by Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876–1916), an American writer and author of many books, including 'Daddy-Long-Legs' and 'Dear Enemy'. Her best-known books feature lively, likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers. 'Daddy-Long-Legs'...

Sir John Alexander Hammerton (1871–1949) is described by the 'Dictionary of National Biography' as "the most successful creator of large-scale works of reference that Britain has known". Among many other notable accomplishments, he edited the 'Punch Library of Humour', a series of 25 volumes of selected 'Punch Magazine' sketches, described as "cream of [British] national humour, contributed by the masters of the comic draughtsmanship and leading...

In 1809, New Yorkers were buzzing about a series of classified ads concerning the whereabouts of Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker. They were unaware that Washington Irving had invented the man entirely and placed the ads himself. Knickerbocker's purported manuscript, A History of New York, was Irving's own. Told from Knickerbocker's point of view, A History of New York is a chronicle of New York's fifty years under Dutch rule in the 1600s that...

The dry wit of the New England Yankee has done much to cheer the Lonely Traveler on his way. It has oiled the thinking machinery when it creaked and provided inspiration for that spontaneous good fellowship which helps so much to make life worth living. The following pages are not the product of an overworked imagination, but a record of actual happenings. The characters who pass in review before the reader are real personages whose various experiences...

There is nothing insular about Mr. Punch. Judging by his features, familiar though these be and long as they have been typical of English humour, he is not without some trace of foreign origin. Indeed, we fancy that were a very searching enquiry to be made into his ancestry we might find he had a far-off forebear who was, let us say, Italian! Perhaps we have here the explanation of his breadth of mind and wide sympathy which, however deeply rooted...

Designed to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to "Punch," from its beginning in 1841 to the present day.- from introduction

Mr. H. M. Bateman possesses in remarkable degree that rare gift, a real power of comic draughtsmanship. He is capable not only of comic vision, but of comic expression. His "line" is an instinctive expression of the comic: it reveals an innate feeling for the essentially humorous. To put it briefly, if somewhat vaguely, he "draws funnily." He is the terse and witty pictorial raconteur —a shrewd observer who can sum up a character, or conjure up...