September 19, 2006

The book of frogs and mice
posted by the quidnunc kid 18 years ago
  • Wait -- why does the cat show up naked? For a human, I suppose being naked while slaughtering creatures may make it easier to clean up (supposing you can keep all your bits out of the way), but a cat has all that fur that's going to attract all these blood splatters. What about a raincoat? Pairs of Wellys?
  • I love a happy ending.
  • Wait wait wait . . . What?!
  • Inter-species marriage, merry dancing and murder. What's not to like?
  • Indeed. And that final bow is a nice touch, suggesting that it was all a little play. One they should act out with their friends, perhaps.
  • Bagsy being the murderous kitten!
  • Is this some kind of metaphorical statement on the papacy? What does the lace represent?
  • You. You big girly-man! *runs away*
  • *points, laughs*
  • Were these poems attempts to gentrify the "Froggy Went A-Courtin'" song, or was the song a rustic version of the poems?
  • Gay frog gets teh pussay. Why am I not surprised?
  • WHY! Why was this abomination against nature created? "No author known" No shit, what twisted screw ball would admit to making this horror. Delete it before some poor child wanders across it!
  • "Pray, Mrs. Mouse, are you within?" "Oh, yes, kind sirs, I sit and spin." Different times, surely.
  • Pray, Mrs. Mouse, will you give us some beer? For Froggy and I are fond of good cheer. "I'm goin' out drinkin' with the frogs" My pappy used to mutter, and then out he'd be in the swamp for a week or more. Ma didn't say nothin' to us after the third day, just sit there quiet, polishin' the silver plated shotgun grandpa killed himself with.
  • I liked the images for the second story better - they were more realistic. The "human body with frog or mouse head pasted on" drawings for the first story were kinda creepy. I'm wondering - two different artists, or were the drawings for the second story made to look less human so as not to creep people out by the demise of the actors in the end?
  • made to look less human so as not to creep people out . . . ? A giant cat mangles and dismembers them!! This book totally kitfistolates conventional kid's stories. It's wrong and bad. )))!
  • Very cute. Thanks Q!
  • Gotta love nineteenth century attitudes: The world's a tough place and the sooner you learn that (and your place) the better.
  • Hey ho, says Rowley!
  • No duck is ever lily-white!
  • This interspecies perversity has got to stop!
  • Hooray!
  • This interspecies perversity has got to stop! I never thought I'd be asking myself this question, but I'm forced to wonder which is worse: a frog doing a mouse, or a man doing a hedgehog. These are the kinds of weighty matters that try philosophers' souls.
  • I am glad I have two cats, apparently they were put on earth to eliminate these monstrosities.
  • ... which is worse: a frog doing a mouse, or a man doing a hedgehog. Actually frogs don't mess about with other species. We should never forget, this whole monstrous tale was originally cooked up by a perverse HUMAN mind! But that's what happens when ye personify animals; they start acting JUST LIKE PEOPLE.
  • I'm really torn between the cat slaughter page and the 'Ludes poster from dng's post for my desktop. I must need another computer.
  • Canada's rich froggy heritage.
  • Indeed. Ahem.
  • how dew I love thee? Let me count the waves and trust that luck will save this pair before a fierce bad duck doth gobble them both up
  • A quack in the are more?
  • a splash in the brook a squeak shrill with passion shall mouse be faithless while froggie's so dashin'?
  • a frog beer imbiber a comely mouse miss a carnivorous kitty the rat leaves with a whish!
  • Fascinating read, Plegmund!
  • the rat leaves with a whish! when you whish upon a star ...