title: Commander Toad and the Dis-asteroid
author:  Jane Yolen 
description: "Yolen treats beginning readers to another episode in the adventuresome life of the lovable Commander Toad. . . . Independent readers will enjoy the latest adventure." --<i>School Library Journal</i>
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  John Kendrick Bangs  
  CHAPTER I: CHARON MAKES A DISCOVERY  
  CHAPTER II: A DISPUTED AUTHORSHIP  
  CHAPTER III: WASHINGTON GIVES A DINNER  
  CHAPTER IV: HAMLET MAKES A SUGGESTION  
  CHAPTER V: THE HOUSE COMMITTEE DISCUSS THE POETS  
  CHAPTER VI: SOME THEORIES, DARWINIAN AND OTHERWISE  
  CHAPTER VII: A DISCUSSION AS TO LADIES' DAY  
  CHAPTER VIII: A DISCONTENTED SHADE  
  CHAPTER IX: AS TO COOKERY AND SCULPTURE  
  CHAPTER X: STORY-TELLERS' NIGHT  
  CHAPTER XI: AS TO SAURIANS AND OTHERS  
  CHAPTER XII: THE HOUSE-BOAT DISAPPEARS  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # A House-Boat on the Styx
  
  
  ### John Kendrick Bangs
  
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  ### CHAPTER I: CHARON MAKES A DISCOVERY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Charon, the Ferryman of renown, was cruising slowly along the Styx one
  pleasant Friday morning not long ago, and as he paddled idly on he chuckled
  mildly to himself as he thought of the monopoly in ferriage which in the
  course of years he had managed to build up.
  
  
  
  
  
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