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The Wise-Parslow Company. [Published Date: 1929]. "The Golden Hour Rainbow Edition." Illustrations, many in color, by John Rae. Hardcover, 95 pp. In acceptable+ condition/ NO dust jacket. Brown illustrated cloth covered boards have light nicking and fraying to cloth at corner tips and moderate overall scuffing and soiling. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked with heavier aging to endpapers and occasional spotting and soiling throughout. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. 38 short stories about what certain things mean, and why they are the way they are. Contents include: Something About Amber, About Salmon, About the Months and Days, A Pair of Shoes; About Madonnas; Snow-Crystals, The Aurora Borealis, About Interest, May Day, Something about Mushrooms, About Margaret Haughty, Aeroplanes and “Firsts”, About Maple Sugar, Yankee Doodle; Jet, and the story of Caedmon, Common Salt, About Moose, Labor Day, Telescopes, Soap Splashes, Armistice Day, The Red Cross, About the Psalms, Something about Spiders, Navy Day, Mr. Humming Bird, American Citizen, Mr. Mink, the Weasel, About Apples, Shakespeare’s Birthday, Something about Wool, Decoration Day, About Names, Radio, Columbus Day, Mahogany, an American Product, About Linen, Photographs, Moving and Talking. [From Introduction] Many of you remember the Boy Named Billy who spent a summer with Somebody in the north woods. Billy did not care for make-believe stories so much as he did for true ones. He was tremendously interested in the things that are really-so: how customs began, and what certain days mean, and why things are the ay they are. So Somebody told him about them, and they were put into a book called he Really-So Stories that many of you have read. But the Boy Named Billy was like Oliver Twist: he wanted more. He was always wishing for more really-so stories. And Mom and Dad couldn't answer all his questions—they had a few other things to do. So they thought of the plan of asking Somebody to come and make them a good long visit while writing a new book, and just answer Billy's questions when it was perfectly convenient. It so happened that Somebody, who strange to say enjoyed answering questions anyway, was delighted with the idea. And so there were more really-so stories. And because so many children, both small and large liked The Really-So Stories just as much as Billy did when they were all put into a book, here is a book of More Really-So Stories, which Somebody told on that long visit to Mom and Dad, Big sister, Little Sister, Uncle Ned and old dog Towse—not forgetting the Boy Named Billy.