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Mr. Bones

noun

  1. the end man in a minstrel troupe who plays the bones.


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It’s there in the opening chapters of “My Secret History,” in the middle of “My Other Life,” in “The Stranger at the Palazzo d’Oro” and in “Mr. Bones,” in the first chapters of “The Lower River” — and also as the setting of my most recent novel, “The Bad Angel Brothers,” where I renamed it Littleford.

Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch Pick a peck of pumpkins, tour a delightful village featuring small houses made of pumpkins and enjoy live music plus activities like face-painting, pumpkin decorating, a petting zoo, mazes, bounce houses and inflatable slides at this family-run and family-friendly offering.

Yet the sense of being there at the beginning appealed to Brown, and he soon exhibited a preternatural ability to find fossils and extricate them from the earth without destroying them, leading to his receiving the nickname Mr. Bones.

From Slate

The promise that Brown’s luck would not run out led Henry Fairfield Osborn, the head of the struggling American Museum of Natural History’s nascent vertebrate-paleontology division, to see in Mr. Bones a solution to his problems.

From Slate

A straw maze, bounce houses, super slides and a petting zoo are just some of the kid-friendly offerings to be found at Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch, West L.A.

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