Creighton University

A quiet treasure in the collection!  Here are four good stories, beautifully illustrated in Shepherd’s turn-of-the-century book.  They are rendered here on the thinnest of fabrics.  A quick check on Charlene Dodson reveals that she was a prominent American Native, known extensively for her quilting.  I believe I ordered one story and was so impressed that I ordered the others, and she offered a special price.  Each story starts with a cover picture (and twice a second title panel) and a closing panel.  “The Ostrich and the Birds” uses ten story-panels to show the ostriches rejected first by the birds and then the animals.  “The Cock and the Jewels” is the shortest, with only two story-panels well used to tell the tale.  A cock happened on some jewels….and answered his wives “nothing bug jewels – let us go and find some barley.”  “The Result of Going to Law” uses seven story-panels to show the wolf accusing the fox of stealing a chicken.  After hearing the case, the monkey-judge condemns the wolf to pay costs for bring a false charge, informs  the fox that he is lucky not to be hanged, and takes the chicken as his fee.  “The Hermit and the Bear” uses seven panels to have the bear wound his dear friend.  It adds a panel on which the hermit boots the bear out of his house!