The Lady Who Put Salt In Her Coffee

The Peterkin Papers (version 2)

by Lucretia P. HALE (1820 - 1900)

The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work. The Peterkins are a lovable but comically inept family with ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy—but not common sense. Many chapters show the family trying to solve some problem in a roundabout way, failing, and eventually being rescued by "the wise old lady from Philadelphia," who cuts the Gordian knot with an effective but prosaic solution. The charm of the story is not in the plot, but in the telling, building up layers of complication, and the affectionate fun poked at the not-quite-cartoonish characters. The "wise old lady's" solution is usually obvious to the reader, even the young listener, from the start. (summary from Wikipedia)

Listen next episodes of The Peterkin Papers (version 2):
About Elizabeth Eliza's Piano , Agamemnon's Career , Modern Improvements At The Peterkins' , Mrs. Peterkin Wishes To Go To Drive , Mrs. Peterkins Tea-Party , The Educational Breakfast , The Peterkins Are Obliged To Move , The Peterkins At Home , The Peterkins At The "Carnival of Authors" In Boston , The Peterkins At The Farm , The Peterkins Celebrate The "Fourth" , The Peterkins' Charades , The Peterkins' Christmas-Tree , The Peterkins Decide To Keep A Cow , The Peterkins Decide To Learn The Languages , The Peterkins' Picnic , The Peterkins Snowed-Up , The Peterkins' Summer Journey , The Peterkins Too Late For The Exhibition , The Peterkins Try To Become Wise , Why The Peterkins Had A Late Dinner