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The Water Goats, and Other Troubles
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A collection of humorous short stories by American writer Ellis Parker Butler, this 1998 edition reprints the title tale "The Water Goats" alongside other comic pieces. It suits readers of early twentieth-century American humor and those interested in Butler's short fiction.
Ellis Parker Butler
Ellis Parker Butler was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially. His most famous character was Philo Gubb.
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