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A band of mischievous monkeys steal every one of the peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree.

"An eighteenth-century Jewish peddler is reincarnated as a fly in present-day Long Island, and becomes involved in the lives of two residents"-- In eighteenth-century Paris, Jacob Cerf is a Jew, a peddler of knives, saltcellars, and snuffboxes. Two hundred years later, Jacob is amazed to find himself reincarnated as a fly in the Long Island suburbs of twenty-first-century America. And thanks to his arrival, the lives of a reliable volunteer fireman...

As Richard of Gloucester begins his bid for the English crown in 1483, Roger investigates the disappearance of a young boy whose tutor has been found murdered in an apparently locked room.

Peddlers were welcome visitors a hundred years ago, but this one brought trouble as well as joy to the Bellamy family.

A passing peddler gives Miss Moon a "seed" that might grow a paper flower tree and, although the villagers scoff, the little girl believes her seed will sprout.