WHEN I AM DEAD * Also by the Editor Men with Their Hands: A Novel Snooty: A Comedy This Way to the Acorns: Poems Silence is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness St. Michael’s Fall: Poems Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay and Lesbian Reader (as Editor) WHEN I AM D E A D * The Writings of George M. Teegarden * Raymond Luczak Editor Gallaudet University Press Washington, D.C. Gallaudet University Press Washington, D.C. http://gupress.gallaudet.edu © by Raymond Luczak All rights reserved Published Printed in the United States of America Cover photograph: Courtesy of the Gallaudet University Archives Cover design by Mona Z. Kraculdy Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Teegarden, George M. (George Moredock), 1852–1936. When I am dead : the writings of George M. Teegarden / Raymond Luczak, editor. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-56368-348-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Deaf, Writings of the, American. 2. Deaf—Literary collections. I. Luczak, Raymond, 1965– II. Title. PS3539.E165W45 2007 818′.409—dc22 2007006552 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements for American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z.-. for John Lee Clark Contents Acknowledgments xi The Slimmest of Evidence: An Open Letter to George M. Teegarden Part One: Stories In Pennsylvania Horned Toads Gusky A Kind Dog Playing with Powder A Bad Cat A Little Spartan A Strange Accident Dangerous Coasting History Lessons Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet A Ring of Ill-Omen Benjamin Franklin Venice Memorial Address for Rev. John G. Brown, D. D. Aaron Burr’s Daughter vii Life Lessons The Fox The Boy and His Stomach The Lark and the Young Ones The Grateful Dog Boys and Monkeys The Miller and His Donkey Two Kittens Rudely Awakened Borrowed Plumes The Gentleman and the Banana Peel Absent-Minded Animal Stories Molly and the Canary Fight with an Owl The Bird and the Snake “Hiram’s Cow” The Tiger’s Bath A Huntress The Stork and the Dog The Lion and the Spaniel Saved by Sheep Elenore and Nero The Monkey and the Sugar The Toad, the Snake, and the Tramp viii Retellings Lady Jane of Lorn Echo Arachne Vanlander and Amilias The Lady of the Lawn Issa People Stories The Ugly Aunt The Maid of the Inn Three Little Ones and the Giants Yellow Hair and Blue Eyes Dining-Room Talk Father Pumpkin The Youth and the Northwind Alice Ginevra A Cuban Amazon Four Brothers Uncle Sam Personal Notes Missive to Alice () My Connection with and My Activities at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf A Pleasant Summer Trip () ix
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