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The king of Gee-Whiz (1906) (14753014745)
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Identifier: kingofgeewhiz00houg (find matches)
Title: The king of Gee-Whiz
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hough, Emerson, 1857-1923 Nesbit, Wilbur D. (Wilbur Dick), 1871-1927 Cesare, Oscar Edward, 1885-1948
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Publisher: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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as behind hisbed. There was good reason for this, for in both casesthe Wicked Fairy was directly at his elbow, althoughthe King could not see him. Well, well, said the King, I will just draw me ajug of syrup, and I am sure the exercise will do me good.Even a King must have physical culture, or fall quitebehind the times. Let me see. Ah, here is a tree whichlooks precisely like a syrup tree. So saying, he laid about him with his ax and cleareda little space so that he could get at the trunk of the tree.It was then that the Wicked Fairy whispered in his ear,although the King did not know it: Cut into that tree,the one with the big green leaves! The King of Gee-Whiz, not knowing that a Fairy wasthere, thought it was his own voice he had heard. Eh ?said he. Ah, to be sure, this certainly is the tree. 90 THE KING AND THE WICKED FAIRY So now for a little exercise, and some syrup for my break-fast. So saying he swung his gold ax and cut deepinto the trunk of the tree the Fairy had shown him.
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Oscar Cesare was born in 1885. He worked as a cartoonist for the New York Sun and adopted the grease crayon technique that had been adopted by other radical cartoonists such as Boardman Robinson, Robert Minor, K. R. Chamberlain, and Rollin Kirby.
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