Robert Quackenbush

Country storekeeper Moose shows that he can be pushed just so far when his friends take over and try to modernize the store.

An American folk song, told in rebus form and pictures, is accompanied by suggestions for a "goose-fest."

Henry the Duck wonders why just one of his feathers is speckled. Maybe one of his cousins will know. So off Henry goes from France to Egypt to Brazil, asking one cousin after another if they have the same unusual feather.

A brief biography of the inventor of the world's first practical telegraph system.

A brief biography of the Dutchman who arrived to be governor of New Amsterdam in 1647 and turned it from a muddy village into a well-organized city.

A humorous biography of the first "common man" President, who was a hero of the War of 1812 and who represented the "new" America of the frontier.

A biography of the developer of the first lightweight, inexpensive automobile.

Relates how Charles Darwin began his career as an unpaid naturalist aboard the brig H.M.S. Beagle on a five-year voyage around South America, during which he began to formulate his revolutionary theory of evolution.