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The stopwatch

By Lloyd David

Tom times everything with his new stopwatch, including a fight with his sister.

Bread and cheese

By Lloyd David

Eric's request for bread and cheese begins a chain of like requests as each person asked in turn asks someone else.

Hat

By Lloyd David

Johnny Martin, being the only person without headgear in a family of pink, brown, straw, flat, knitted, and flowery hats, finally gets one of his own.

The stopwatch

By Lloyd David

Tom times everything with his new stopwatch, including the time it takes to retrieve the watch after his sister steals it.

The sneeze

By Lloyd David

The reader is asked to choose the most likely possibilities in putting together combinations of girl, man, dog, hat, bench, ball, newspaper, and suitcase to create a story.

Culture and the state

By Lloyd David

From the end of the eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century, a remarkable convergence took place in Europe between theories of the modern state and theories of culture. Culture and...

Grandma and the pirate

By Lloyd David

At the beach a little boy pretends to be a pirate until his grandmother neatly turns the tables.

The ridiculous story of Gammer Gurton's needle

By Lloyd David

In sixteenth-century England the village troublemaker sets neighbor against neighbor when Gammer Gurton loses her needle while stitching a rip in her servant's trousers.

Nationalism and minor literature

By Lloyd David