Once I was walking in the Fields of the Earth[A] and there I met a Mintie, with a head on before and a tail on behind, and inside the Mintie there lived a Growl. Now the Growl had neither head, body, nor legs, but it lived inside of the Mintie.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] Apologies to John Bunyan.
A SUGARED DESCRIPTION
He’s all made of lollipops stuck together with treacle, and then there was a high wind blowing and lots of sugar in the air. And the sugar stuck all over him and that’s the reason he’s fluffy.
Raggety
His Mark
The Arrival of Raggety
He trotted into my life one sunshiny day in May over there in a town on the Hudson. He was trying to teach a hound puppy with very large dull paws how to play. The puppy was clumsy, he was slow, he panted abominably, but the little yellow dog went round and round him in flashing circles, the circles growing smaller and faster. The center of them all came and the fluff turned like down before the wind and flew away to rest. I laughed out loud with joy at the fun of that little yellow dog. As he rested he thrust his hind-legs out on either side, in a way peculiar to terriers, and from my window looked an animated doormat. “How slow and stupid that hound puppy is!” said every hair of the gay little yellow body.