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"It was before the Idiot's marriage, and in the days when he was nothing more than a plain boarder in Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog's High-class Home for Single Gentlemen, that he put what the School-master termed his "alleged mind" on plans for the amelioration of the condition of the civilized." This humorous story by the editor of Puck magazine describes how the Idiot sets out to improve the lot of civilized man through his inventions - the lot of barbarian man already being well tended to by missionaries and other do-gooders. (Introduction by peac)

Cast:
Narrator: peac
The Idiot: Algy Pug
Mrs. Smithers Pedagog: TriciaG
Mr. Pedagog (aka The Schoolmaster): Adam Bratcher
The Doctor: Raken
Bibliomaniac: Availle
Mr. Poet:Matthew Reece
Mr. Whitechoker: Aidan Brack
The Genial Old Gentleman who sometimes imbibed: om123

Inventions of the Idiot (dramatic reading), The by John Kendrick Bangs (1862 - 1922‪)‬ LibriVox

    • Arts

"It was before the Idiot's marriage, and in the days when he was nothing more than a plain boarder in Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog's High-class Home for Single Gentlemen, that he put what the School-master termed his "alleged mind" on plans for the amelioration of the condition of the civilized." This humorous story by the editor of Puck magazine describes how the Idiot sets out to improve the lot of civilized man through his inventions - the lot of barbarian man already being well tended to by missionaries and other do-gooders. (Introduction by peac)

Cast:
Narrator: peac
The Idiot: Algy Pug
Mrs. Smithers Pedagog: TriciaG
Mr. Pedagog (aka The Schoolmaster): Adam Bratcher
The Doctor: Raken
Bibliomaniac: Availle
Mr. Poet:Matthew Reece
Mr. Whitechoker: Aidan Brack
The Genial Old Gentleman who sometimes imbibed: om123

    Dramatis Personae

    Dramatis Personae

    • 59 sec
    Chapter I: The Culinary Guild

    Chapter I: The Culinary Guild

    • 12 min
    Chapter II: A Suggestion for the Cable-cars

    Chapter II: A Suggestion for the Cable-cars

    • 13 min
    Chapter III: The Transatlantic Trolley Company

    Chapter III: The Transatlantic Trolley Company

    • 13 min
    Chapter IV: The Incorporation of the Idiot

    Chapter IV: The Incorporation of the Idiot

    • 14 min
    Chapter V: University Extension

    Chapter V: University Extension

    • 12 min

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