In his book The No-Sided Professor Martin Gardner reprints  The Three Cowboys , a story for children from January 1959 Humpty Dumpty\u27s Magazine

Farrell, Jeremiah

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COLLECTOR'S CORNER, Round 3 An Occasional Item of Interest to Gardner Collectors Hurnpty Dumpty Magazines Suggested by Jeremiah Farrell In his book The No-Sided Professor (1987, Prometheus Books) Martin Gardner reprints "The Three Cowboys", a story for children from the January 1959 Humpty Dumpty 's Magazme. He says: W%en Humpty Dumpty's Magazine was launched in 19.52, myfiiend Harold Schwartz workedfor Parents Institute and was in charge oftheir new line ofjuvenile periodicals. He hired me as "contributing editor" and for eights years I supplied about one fourth of each issue. I devised the activity features that damaged the pages-Parents Institute had no interest in library subscrptions!-andfor each issue I also wrote a short story and apoem of advice spoken by Mr. Dumpty, the magazine's editor-in-chieJ; to his son Junior. The stories about Junior and his adventures were intended to be read aloud. . . Ipersuaded Szrnon and Schuster to do a selectzon of the poems (the book was called Never Make Fun of a Turtle, My Son) and although I later obtarned book reprznt rlghtsfor the stor~es, I've never found apublisher wzllzng to take the rzsk. Any edztor out there who wants to test the market? I have ezghty takes to pzckfiom. In fact Garner had made arrangements with the press The Battered Silican Dispatch Box to reprint the stories in a book to be titled The Adventures ofHumphrey Hzckleberry. This book has currently been removed from the publisher's list since Gardner died before he sent page proofs. This is an illustration by Albert Aquino for "The Three Cowboys". Also in that issue, presumably by Gardner, are cutouts of a "'Let's Explore the Moon" put-together scene, a game called "Snowman" and a familiar magc iflusion called "Stretch the Magic Stick. 195It is interesting to note that Gardner reuses this last effect in Optical Itlusion, 2008, Sterling Publishing Co., h c .  In a l  the Humpty Dumptys we have seen, the following poem is on the Table of Contents page. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again. Rut an American doctor with patience and glue Put Humpty together -better than new; And now he is healthy and back on the scene, Busily editing t h s  magazine. Is the addendum to the old poem due to "Contributing Editor" Martin Gardner? The February, 1959 issue included, among others, "Let's Play Tanmams" and the following. FOLD SOME SILLY FACES * With  this easy-to-make paper roy you can fold dozens of funny facer, no two of them alike! No parting or tap- ing - all you need ir a pair of scissors. INSTRUCTIONS Cur out the two squares o n  the opposite page and the two squares on page 101, along the solid black lines. Put  Square 2 on top  of Square 1, then put  3 on top of 2, and 4 on tap of 3 .  Square up  the packet so that the edges are even on all sides. Fold the corners back on the dotted lines, folding all four sheets a t  once like this: After you have folded back all the corners of the packet, tu rn  ~t over. Hold as shown below, so the  corners will stay; in place to make a face Nan, by lifting u p  various corners, you can change the face. I H o w  many different faces czil you make? Which one do you think is the funniest? 196

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Collector\u27s Corner, Round 3

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