Archy and the Camel

[anteros_lmc]

When nodbear discovered Susan Pellew's astonishing letter admonishing her husband for bringing home stray tigers, baboons and monkeys it immediately recalled the previous report we had discovered of Pellew arriving at Plymouth and landing a cargo comprising "a beautiful male tiger, a tigercat, several sheep from the Cape of Good Hope, a land and sea

Comments

[elin_gregory]

I used to know someone who had a cat called Mehitabel - that must be where she got the name from.

I'm imagining Pellew with this camel now. The tiddler must be laughing at his tricorn.

[eglantine_br]

I think she is a bantling.

[anteros_lmc]

*nods* or a cub.

[anteros_lmc]

Mehitabel is a splendid name for a cat! And that is an even more splendid camel :D I love camels but I have never had the pleasure of meeting a bactrian camel!

[eglantine_br]

I read Archy and Mehitabel years ago. Have not thought of it in a long long time.

[anteros_lmc]

See? I knew you guys would have heard of them! :)

[brewsternorth]

Funny, I knew about archy and mehitabel through a reference to it in another book entirely (a pithy little ditty as a chapter-opening epigram).

[anteros_lmc]

I am now very intrigued by the pithy little cockroach. I must look out more of his works!

[vespican]

i had heard of archy and mehitabel before as well. don't know if i've read any of it, but...

dave

[anteros_lmc]

hi dave, i knew you guys would have come across these guys before :)

[lady_branwyn]

i am acquainted with archy and mehitabel. read their works when I was a child.

[anteros_lmc]

having just met them, i would certainly like to become better acquainted :)