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Fables in Slang
George Ade
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While a columnist for The Chicago Record, humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables in Slang is the first of these collections. It contains 26 satirical stories that lampoon phrenologists, idealists, snobs, fanatics and other ignorant fools of the day, most of which still wander through our modern lives. Jean Shepherd considered Ade a predecessor who made writers like James Thurber, Mike Royko, and himself possible.
While a columnist for The Chicago Record, humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables in Slang is the first of these collections. It contains 26 satirical stories that lampoon phrenologists, idealists, snobs, fanatics and other ignorant fools of the day, most of which still wander through our modern lives. Jean Shepherd considered Ade a predecessor who made writers like James Thurber, Mike Royko, and himself possible.
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She had scared all the Red Corpuscles out of the 2 by 4 Midget who rotated about her in a Limited Orbit and was known by Courtesy as her Husband. He was Soft for her, and so she got it Mapped out with Herself that she was a Superior Woman.
She knew that when she switched the Current on to herself she Used up about 6,000 Ohms an hour, and the whole Neighborhood had to put on Blinders.
She had read about nine Subscription Books with Cupid and Dove Tail-Pieces and she believed that she could get away with any Topic that was batted up to her and then slam it over to Second in time to head off the Runner.
Her clothes were full of Pin-Holes where she had been hanging Medals on Herself, and she used to go in a Hand-Ball Court every Day and throw up Bouquets, letting them bounce back and hit Her.
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Community Reviews
My copy is an old hardcover, original 1906. It's very good light reading in the vein of Aesop.
Amusing, but I doubt I'll remember much of this six months from now. And I've decided that Ade's fable pieces are much better heard on Ron Evry's podcast, Mr. Ron's Basement, than read in print.
I finally feel like a proper Kentland/Brook girl to have read some Ade. The stories were amusing. I got the small town feel, but I'll admit I was looking for more traces of home than I found.
"Silly, and it requires too much knowledge of the context. But these are pretty decent on the whole and it is very easy to see their importance in the popular mind.
"The New Fable of the Private Agitator and What He Cooked Up": 8
"The New Fable of the Speedy Sprite": 6
"The New Fable of the Intermit
Good collection of fables. Few people are reading humorists nowadays.
I have read most of the stories in Fables in Slang at following link.
Fables in Slang
Very enjoyable, if dated.
Seemed like a caricature of slang, not what real people might say... Although each one had a moral, it was usually not connected to the story. I didn't think it was very funny...more