George Ade
1914
The Fable 'Proving That Spongers are Found in a Drug Store'
Once there was a good-natured old Scout who opened a drug store on the corner with the int…
1914
The Fable of 'How Uncle Brewster Was Too Shifty For the Tempter'
Aunt Mahaley knew Uncle Brewster was sporty, and when he went to the city to pay off his m…
1914
The Fable of 'The Author and the Dear Public and the Plate of Mush'
Ernest Coppie, an author, was trying to grind out something that could be sold for enough…
1914
The Fable of 'The Long Range Lover and the Lollypalooze'
Blackstone Cooley, a studious young lawyer, could not see the girls for dust. One day whil…
1914
The Fable of Aggie and the Aggravated Attacks
Aggie has survived the measles, mumps and scarlet rash, so when she brought home the high…
The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man
Buchanan Bartlett, shiftless son of Hiram Bartlett, farmer retired, is sent to college to…
1914
The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps
He was too big for this world when a Phrenologist told him he was a modern Napoleon.
The Fable of One Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand
Once there was an old man called Jonah Crabb, who believed in doing good. Every morning th…
1914
The Fable of the 'Good Fairy'
Once there was a broad girl who had nothing to do except the two-by-four midget known as h…
1914
The Fable of the 'People's Choice Who Answered the Call of Duty and Took Seltzer'
The political bosses knew it was an off year and they needed a Goat to run for City Clerk.…
1914
The Fable of The Adult Girl Who Got Busy
Clara was no longer a Spring Chicken, and when she passed the Thirty Mark, she began to wo…
1914
The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine
The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine
1914
The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify
Rube Homer Splivins imitates the actions of a famous matinee idol in order to woo his lady…
The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in
The Busy Business Boy lands at his desk like the Early Bird with the intention of tearing…
1914
The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times
Once a lot of grown-up girls organized a club for the discussion of current evils. The pri…
The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed
The coming "champ" decides he is so good he can go around a Dub like a Cooper around a Bar…
1914
The Fable of the Family That Did Too Much For Nellie
The Todd family had no success in finding a suitable cook, and after firing the thirteenth…
1914
The Fable of the Husband Who Showed Up and Did His Duty
Mrs. Clymer has great social aspirations, and every time she gave a party her husband was…
The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth
Old man Suggs was feeling Kippy one day, so his son Joel, a little short of pocket money,…
The Prevailing Craze
Dancing instructor Madame Cassell spends the day having her feet trampled by auto enthusia…
1914
Three Boiled Down Fables
#1: The Household Comedian; #2: Why Essie's Friends Got the Fresh Air; #3: The Prevailing…
1914
Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind
Two excellent fables in one reel. "The Fable of Another Side-Track an dthe Fatal Album,"…
1914
Two Pop-Up Fables
"The Fable of the Girl Who Shifted the System" is about a girl called Ethel, who was very…
1915
At the End of a Perfect Day
The story opens with an old couple in the evening of life, sitting by the fireside reminis…
1915
Father and the Boys
Wealthy stockbroker Lemuel Morewood wants his sons, Billy and Tom, to learn the business a…
1915
Hifaluting Tillie and Her Plain Parents
When Tillie left her country home for the seminary, she was just a plain Gawk, but when sh…
1915
Just Out of College
Edward Swinger contrives to win the hand of the lovely Caroline Pickering by selling her f…
1915
The Fable of a Night Given Over to Revelry
Having declared himself in on a jolly college dinner, Mr. Dubley, member of the class of '…
1915
The Fable of the City Grafter and the Unprotected Rubes
"Sure-thing" Steve and his pals searched the map for prospective country towns in which th…
1915
The Fable of the Good People Who Rallied to the Support of the Church
The loyal women of the congregation decided to pull off a festival and raise some coin for…
The Fable of the Intermittent Fusser
The Fable of the Roistering Blades
Out in the celery belt there is a stunted flag station whose leading citizens still wear g…
1915
The Fable of the Syndicate Lover
Kate had a very devoted beau known as George. George loved the girl so hard that he loved…
1915
The Slim Princess
Gloom overcasts the palace of Count Selim Nalagaski, governor general of Morovenia, Turkey…
The Fable of the Grass Widow and the Mesmeree and the Six Dollars
The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure
The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and…