![]() The story features a river, a log, a drowning young lady with a large feather in her hat, and a golden-egg-laying goose. Verbeek cleverly uses the fable, though, in setting up the unlikely plot for this story. Actually, not much more than the title and the existence of a golden-egg laying goose relates to the traditional GGE fable. All the stories feature Lovekins and Muffaroo one is the other when you turn them upside down. White Boy celebrates the life and culture of the American Indian of the Old West in a way that was unique in early twentieth century popular culture. I need these instructions at the mid-points and endings of the stories. From the famed New Yorker illustrator comes one of the lost treasures of American comic strips. The twenty-four page pamphlet includes very helpful instructions on where to go next. The stories are here reproduced for the first time in their original color. For sixty-four straight weeks starting in 1903 Verbeek produced a story in six panels that continued as the reader followed the panels again in reverse order upside down. As the introduction points out, they pay tribute to one of the most unusual minds to offer illustrated stories. I was amazed to find what I thought was GGE among the four stories in this pamphlet found in one of the three or four bookshops I found in Greenwich. ![]() ![]() I had encountered topsy-turvy books before, and they may well have come from Verbeek (once known as Verbeck). ![]() Here is one of the strangest books I have found for this collection. ![]()
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