Winsor McCay: Early Works
By: Winsor McCay.
Series: Winsor McCay: Early Works
Publisher: Checker Book Pub. Group
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Miamisburg, OH
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: McCay, Winsor.
Table of contents: label: Life as a Phunny Dream. Introduction by Mark Thompson
title: 5; label: Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend
title: 6; label: "Why this is Broadway be gosh." #009 October 26, 1904
title: 7; label: "Well! The ambition of my life is about to be realized." #048 March 11, 1905
title: 8; label: "That automobile certainly did hit me an awful welt." #018 December 2, 1904
title: 9; label: "Oh! What a beautiful present." #057, April 12, 1905
title: 10; label: "Do you know I love to loop the loop?" #59, April 19, 1905
title: 11; label: "Well! That's funny. He didn't collect my fare." #99, 1905 (Complete Rarebit number)
title: 12; label: "Now what do you suppose that rope is doing stretched across my bed eh?" #32, January 14, 1905
title: 13; label: "Say professor. Your instruction has worked wonders with me." #005 October 10, 1904
title: 14; label: "I do so love the spring-time." #058 April 15, 1905
title: 15; label: "I just simply can't sleep." #043 February 22, 1905
title: 16; label: "Oh! What a horrible feeling. Why!" #036 Janurary 28, 1905
title: 17; label: "That mother-in-law of mine is a holy terror." #039 February 8, 1905
title: 18; label: "Well! Jehosefat gosh! What are you with?" #046 March 4, 1905
title: 19; label: "Well sir I don't believe Stanley or Livingston half explored this Congo region." #019, December 3, 1904
title: 20; label: "I'm getting tired of this job, tot-ing toys around to houses with steam pipes instead of the good old fire places." #025 December 20, 1904
title: 21; label: "Oh that's only a dog. Did you ever see me hit an Ambulance right?" #004 October 7, 1904
title: 22; label: "Here Usona! Mustn't chase the bridie." #023 December 15, 1904
title: 23; label: "I love this young lady so do you we both can not live." #26, December 22, 1904
title: 24; label: [This stairway to the torch. Statue of Liberty] "I ought to be kicked." #041 February 15, 1905
title: 25; label: "Come on all you Democrats. Money talks." #011 November 1, 1904
title: 26; label: "I don't care. I've lived forty seven years alone and I'm tired of it." #012 November 5, 1904
title: 27; label: "Well! Here's where I stall now and make my little bow." #055 April 5, 1905
title: 28; label: "We have all shown how gladly we welcome our dear friend back again from Europe." #038 February 4, 1905
title: 29; label: "Confidentially now, I made it myself." #008 October 21, 1904
title: 30; label: "I want to buy a new suit of clothes." #051 March 22, 1905
title: 31; label: "Oh! My precious little darling sweet face pet." #053 March 29, 1905
title: 32; label: "Well! I've re-moved the vermi-form appendix but I think I've removed his -" #044 February 25, 1905
title: 33; label: "Well now if that ain't luck. Went and left my rubbers at the office." #027 December 26, 1904
title: 34; label: "I suppose you've heard about my decision. I am sure to go on the stage." #016 November 23, 1904
title: 35; label: "What I wanted you for was to try an Experiment." #060 April 22, 1905
title: 36; label: "Oh I'll win the prize all right. I'll come back $100,000.00 richer you bet." #014 November 17, 1904
title: 37; label: "Oh! Isn't he a beauty! Where did you get him?" #047 March 8, 1905 (idea used later in 'The Pet' film)
title: 38; label: "If there is anything I do like it's a nice hot bath." #042 February 18, 1905
title: 39; label: "I tell you what I'll do I'll bet you $4.00 I can drink more booze than you can." #003 October 3, 1904
title: 40; label: "Yeth um. Pint or quart bottleths." #010 October 29, 1904
title: 41; label: "Now I've told you the whole thing." #037 February 1, 1905
title: 42; label: "Oh! Oh! Why did Osler ever make such a law?" #045 March 1, 1905
title: 43; label: "Well! I declare, can't I walk with-out stumbling over everything?" #052 March 25, 1905
title: 44; label: "So that's the little village of New york makes quite a flash at that." #030 January 7, 1905
title: 45; label: "I've tried a thousand remedies but got no re-lief." #006 October 14, 1904
title: 46; label: "A child could run it. You take the job." #050 March 18, 1905
title: 47; label: "Well I'm sore, here I've been tramp-ing all day looking for game." #029 January 5, 1905
title: 48; label: "Why dear I'm awful sorry I am so late but realy the cars were blocked -" #013 November 14, 1904
title: 49; label: "I ought to have been kicked the day I left New York and came out to this cursed state of Utah, joined the Mormon Church and then married a dozen women." #056 April 8, 1905
title: 50; label: "I always like to sit in the corner of a car then I don't have people tramping all over me -" #062 April 29, 1905
title: 51; label: "Well here I am. Broke." #020 December 6, 1904
title: 52; label: "Here are those youth tablets you wanted to try, foolish darling." #028 January 3, 1905
title: 53; label: "Oh! I don't know what to do: I can't find a house any where fit to live in." #031 January 10, 1905
title: 54; label: "I do believe that salve is going to kill that corn." #040 February 11, 1905
title: 55; label: "Gracious! But I've got the blues. I'm dead broke. Owe everybody and over -worked." #022 December 13, 1904
title: 56; label: "I thought I'd drop in and tout you onto greased light-ning it's good!" #015 November 21, 1904
title: 57; label: "If there is any thing I like, it is to sit down after dinner with Evening Telegram and a good cigar and smoke and read." #034 January 21, 1905
title: 58; label: "New York loves her king. Long live the Emperor long live the king." 1905, #100 (Complete Rarebit number)
title: 59; label: "You borrowed thirty cents from me ten years ago." #017 November 30, 1904
title: 60; label: "Well! I'm going to brace him. Gosh! I could only feel big and nervey now." #061 April 26, 1905
title: 61; label: "There comes my car. Well! I mustn't miss it, so me do a hotfoot for it." #054 April 1, 1905
title: 62; label: "No. It wont pain you a bit. One little pull and out it will come." #007 October 17, 1904
title: 63; label: "For pity sake Ches. Where did you get that hat?" #024 December 17, 1904
title: 64; label: "I bet I'll have some heatout of that old furnace or I'll know the reason why." #049 March 15, 1905
title: 65; label: "Well! now let's see. What have I got to do today?" #035 January 25, 1905
title: 66; label: Tales of the Jungle Imps
title: 67; label: How the Elephant got his Trunk
title: 68; label: How the Quillypig got his Quills
title: 69; label: How the Kangaroo got his Big Hing Legs
title: 70; label: How the Alligator got his Big Mouth
title: 71; label: How the Pelican got his Pouch
title: 72; label: Why the Polar Bear left the Jungle
title: 73; label: How the Bee got his Sting
title: 74; label: How the Lion got his Roar
title: 75; label: How the Turtle got his Shell
title: 76; label: How the Guinea Pig lost his Tail
title: 77; label: Why the Camel got his Back Up
title: 78; label: How the Snake Lost his Body
title: 79; label: Why the Stork Brings the Babies
title: 80; label: How the Rhinoceros Lost all his Beauty
title: 81; label: Why the Parrot Learned to Talk
title: 82; label: How the Beaver got his Flat Tail
title: 83; label: Why the Goat Learned to Butt
title: 84; label: Why the Owl Stays out at Night
title: 85; label: How the Tiger got his Stripes
title: 86; label: How the Mosquito got his Bill
title: 87; label: How the Lobster got his Claws
title: 88; label: How the Frog became a Jumper
title: 89; label: How the Peacock got his Tail
title: 90; label: How the Cinnamon Bear turned Brown
title: 91; label: How the Pig got his Appetite
title: 92; label: How the Sword Fish got his Sword
title: 93; label: How the Buffalo got turned Around
title: 94; label: How the Booby Bird got even
title: 95; label: How the Hound got so Thin
title: 96; label: Why the Mule Kicks
title: 97; label: How the Eagle got Bald
title: 98; label: How the Rabbit Lost his Tail
title: 99; label: The Troubles of Mister Whale
title: 100; label: Why the Bat hangs Upside Down
title: 101; label: Why the Goose Hisses
title: 102; label: Why the Hioppopotamus Yawns
title: 103; label: Halloween in the Jungle
title: 104; label: How the Zebra got his Stripes
title: 105; label: How the Walrus got his Tusks
title: 106; label: Little Sammy Sneeze
title: 107; label: "Um. Eeaa. Ahhaww. Kah. Chow."
title: 108; label: [The Village Blacksmith] "I'll tell you you're wrong I'll tell you why."
title: 109; label: "Here Sammy hold this candle a minute. Get hold quick."
title: 110; label: "Um. Ee-e. A-ah. Awka-a. Chow."
title: 111; label: [Biggest Circus on Earth] "Isn't that grand?"
title: 112; label: "Is it a real Santa Claus Auntie?"
title: 113; label: "Um." "Now, Sammy you know that is not right, one and one is not seven, neither is two and two, six."
title: 114; label: "Gosh! That tiger is broken loose! Mike! Oh! Mike! Hey!"
title: 115; label: "Um." "That's a skeleton of a dinosaurus found by Professor Diggins in the Rockey Mountains."
title: 116; label: "Sammy, can I depend on, on you holding that ladder?"
title: 117; label: "Now, if everything goes smoothly, we'll have a cup of tea."
title: 118; label: "Um." "Well, if I ain't nearly exhausted!"
title: 119; label: "By jinks! I don't believe I have a match! No sir!"
title: 120; label: "Get off that thing, Hank! You can't ride it."
title: 121; label: "Sop low yen botio gow sin bo lop?"
title: 122; label: "Whoa!" "Oh. Whoa! Oh! Oh!" "Oh my! It's a runaway! Whoa!"
title: 123; label: "Just move it about an inch. Mike! An inch!"
title: 124; label: "Here they come, B'gosh an' Stebbin's Sorrel's ahead."
title: 125; label: "Well! I feel just as young as I did a year ago yes I realy do."
title: 126; label: "Be care-ful you don't tip over." "I'm going to hang these hams now." [Bran Mash Breakfast Food Makes Brains] (also seen on page 149)
title: 127; label: "Step Leo! Up ona de pedestal come come!"
title: 128; label: "Yes. When I was little. I was very musical. Why mother -"
title: 129; label: "You set still wile I make dese cookies an' I'm gwine tell you about dese heah ghosts.
title: 130; label: "Um." "Well! We're here on time anyway. Now Sammy stand back a little."
title: 131; label: "It isn't money I want. My father is a billionaire and owns the mines from which all the gold is dug." [Bosco eats them alive.]
title: 132; label: "Um." "Well! Good by Sammy be a good boy. Grandpapa will meet you in the morning, goodby."
title: 133; label: "You've got to get em both to beat me, I've got seven balls I think you're beaten."
title: 134; label: "Um" "Get a move on yer nobody's lookin."
title: 135; label: "I'd prefer to have him look natural, he very seldom smiles. He's so earnest all -"
title: 136; label: "Ita maka me tire to see alla da troub every bod maka troub." [Frezh Peanutz]
title: 137; label: "How you must have dreaded leaving London." "um."
title: 138; label: "Oh I just know I'm going to fall O-o-h-ho-o oh dear."
title: 139; label: "Come come jacko coma showa da howa -"
title: 140; label: "Fin Dubbs! There now knukledown knuckledown!"
title: 141; label: "Your wife is a splendid cook. That dinner was a delight. I en-joyed it immensely."
title: 142; label: "Oh! Isn't she cunning! Oh! What a lovely little girl!"
title: 143; label: "Shan't I serve a little tea. Mrs. Tipple a cup of tea is so refreshing. Eh -"
title: 144; label: "I kind O thought they'd ferget to get up an' give Sammy his medicine, so I'll do it."
title: 145; label: "Yas, ah got yo brakefus heah waitin' fo you."
title: 146; label: "We just dropped in to make a New Year's call and wish -"
title: 147; label: "Did you want to get a doll for the lit-tle boy?"
title: 148; label: "Be care-ful you don't tip over." "I'm going to hang these hams now." [Bran Mash Breakfast Food Makes Brains] (also seen on page 127)
title: 149; label: "Say doc! You have just simply got to give me some thing to quite my nerves I'm carzy, I'm wild."
title: 150; label: This is Christmas morning, let every one be gay. While greeting one another a merry Christmas."
title: 151; label: "Is he go-ing to jug-gle them?" "If he balances that on his head he's a wonder."
title: 152; label: "Aw yoh say you kin swim. I doan believe hit."
title: 153; label: "Oh! I got lots of other presents besides these dishes. Oh! Yes."
title: 154; label: "What are you going to do? Scwartzmier? Look out!"
title: 155; label: "Um." "Pump poomp-Pup pip peep. Peelee Weele peep ope poop poop pip pipe peely weelee pip peelee weelee"
title: 156; label: "Yas I giva ah gooda shine ah good pol-ish. I fixa ah him up ah fine ver good."
title: 157; label: "If you want to bride. You had better hurry!"
title: 158; label: "Now. It's my turn to blind an' you got to go and hinde!"
title: 159; label: "Will you please, remove your hat mam?"
title: 160; label: "This is my new rubber plant, isn't it a nice one? I am giv-ing it a little sunning. Yes."
title: 161; label: "Sit still you young man and I'll cut your hair in a few minutes."
title: 162; label: "Yes Marion walk up nicely walk straight and pretty. That's it, dear."
title: 163; label: "No! Mr. Peevish. If you say I nev-er intended you should know of my going to that party with -"
title: 164; label: "All bound round with a woolen string. So, Boss so!"
title: 165; label: "You never saw little chickens before. Did you Sammy?"
title: 166; label: "Um." "Heah at las. I beh he's mighty glad toe see his granpa eh?"
title: 167; label: "Um." "Sammy is a good boy just the same poor little fellow yes."
title: 168; label: "I was thinking that maybe we might be able to have a -"
title: 169; label: "Aren't those cute little puppies. Eh. Sammy?"
title: 170; label: "You mamm'e sade fo me to take kaih of you wile she gine cross street"
title: 171; label: A Pilgrim's Progress
title: 172; label: By jove! That man is suf-fering! Suffer-ing bad -"
title: 173; label: Ohh. Oooow! Well! I'll have to get a move on."
title: 174; label: "Now I'll fasten a staple on the bottom so that the chain can be attached!"
title: 175; label: "Here I am in wash-ington at last. And there's the monument where I am bound for."
title: 176; label: "Well I'm getting pretty near fag-ged out. I under-stood Glad Avenue was but a short distance away."
title: 177; label: "Didn't you ever see an X-ray machine?" Indeed!!"
title: 178; label: "Back to the homestead where I was born! Hum!"
title: 179; label: "Now, if elected I can adjust all this. If I am elected, I will put that val-ise away, for you, forever."
title: 180; label: "Huh! Now, ah. Somebody has dropped a parcel of something."
title: 181; label: "Ah! What bliss! I could sit here and rest forever!"
title: 182; label: "The more I try to accom-plish something the more I, - is that some one calling me?"
title: 183; label: [Pawn Shop] "We'll, at last! I've got rid of it. I've pawned it."
title: 184; label: [Her only son her only support her only comfort gets ten years.] "I wonder if that isn't my California train backing in."
title: 185; label: "Ah! A rag picker hum."
title: 186; label: "Well sir, I've searched this room high and low for that old valise of mine and I can not find it."
title: 187; label: "Life is not as bad as we imagine it to be." [How to live happy]
title: 188; label: "Hello' dog what do you want. Eh? Ah! A cur, yet man, man's best friend."
title: 189; label: "I believe I'll try that for a change. Ahah!" [Lay aside Dull Care! Get rich quick!]
title: 190; label: "So. This is your photograph album is it? Um -"
title: 191; label: "He will rid me of this Valise?"
title: 192; label: "Ah! Home Home! I never felt so com-pletely comfortable as at this minute!"
title: 193; label: "Do not use the bathroom this morning. Dear, the hot water pipes leak, and I have a plumb-er working -"
title: 194; label: "I know where I'll go'! I'll go visit the zoo. I can rest there I'm sure a-mong those caged brutes!"
title: 195; label: "The Grand Canon, ha! Five thousand feet below to the rocks."
title: 196; label: "Well, my old friend, how are you? How's the world treating you? I'm quite interested -"
title: 197; label: "Well! Well! Well! My old school mate! Bunion! How are you? I'm so glad -"
title: 198; label: [Prof. Bunkem. P.G World's greatest mind reader!] "Ah! There's where I'll go for a change."
title: 199; label: "Who is that, staring at me? It must be an old friend, or think he is."
title: 200; label: "Huh! Quicksand! A bed of Quicksand! I must not go too near but. I know what I will do! I'll toss -" [Danger Quicksand Stand Back]
title: 201