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32 pp.
| Cavendish |
April, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-7614-5119-6$$16.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Robert Rayevsky.
Two foolish men decide a traveling peddler looks sinister and therefore must have stolen a horse from their village. The pair look very silly when the peddler's bag is opened and no horse is inside, but in a clever twist, the foolish men are proved right, though they never know it. The entertaining story pictures a hook-nosed, swarthy, thieving peddler against stupid pink-cheeked bumpkins.