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Scottish author George MacDonald Fraser took the loutish bully from Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown's Schooldays and gave him a new lease of life. Over the course of 12 novels, caddish anti-hero Flashman swashbuckled his way around the British Empire, playing a key role in some of the 19th century’s most significant events.

Axon is a California pelican that pilfers any shiny objects. Letter carrier Larabie smelled rotting flesh. Nanko runs a dogsled team in Alaska. Yelloh cures Parkinson's by removing the substantia nigra. Bertram began farting again & wondered about the goose. Skier Ignacio becomes buried by an avalanche. Tatum and chimp Charlie live in the jungle. Abe breaks an arm on the 4th of July. Camel Ellsworth starts fires at the zoo. Harry is a special therapy horse. Pat & gang plot prison escape.

William Morris Meredith Jr. (January 9, 1919-May 30, 2007), born in New York City, was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980, and the recipient of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In the following recordings Mederdith reads his poems "The Wreck of the Thresher," "Parents From The Cheer," "The Illiterate," and "Crossing Over."