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Old Fables in New Rhymes

1930?  Old Fables in New Rhymes.  Marian B. Cochrane and Florence A. Camp.  No. 8475.  Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Company.  Unknown source. 

This is a curious game.  Fifteen (of sixteen?) heavy cardboard cards are still here, each representing a verse version of a childhood story.  The first and third line of each quatrain is blank.  The child needs to substitute a word that makes sense and rhymes with its partner two lines away.  Two of the cards (#4 and #8 in the hand-numbering here) present FC and TH.  Someone (a teacher perhaps?) has filled out a smaller card for each of the numbered stories: the card contains correct words for filling the blanks.  One of those words, according to the scribe, is “unsterstand.”  Actually the verse version of FC here is quite good.  I may use it soon in some oral presentation!