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Show 24, Jeffries, Islamorada [Section 4] these images of pursuit, and he resumed, "I suppose it's what we call point-of-view, this idea that it's cute or that some people can laugh at the expense of Peter Rabbit's poor father ending up in Mrs. MacGregor's pie. . ." "Mr. Clayton--do it with us!" There had been a little time left and by acclamation the small boys called for their favorite, and they wanted the intensity of his rendition: I can run away from you, I can I ran away from the little old woman, And the little old man, AND A BIG BLACK DOG, AND A BIG YELLOW COW AND YOU CAN'T CATCH ME 'CAUSE I'M THE LITTLE GINGERBREAD MAN The Lady or the Tiger? He taught his classes how the author, Frank Stockton, got all those letters demanding to know which it was, and all his little boys were sure the tiger came out of the door in the arena to eat the commoner, and the girls could see how maybe, since the semi-barbaric princess had the fix on, the lady could come out, so they drew a scale on the board and the tiger was looking heavy, and to try to balance the tiger they put up 'love', and a girl student inquired dreamily, with an affected dramatic quality, 'How would you weigh "love" on a scale?' and Mr. Dorian Clayton immediately added-'Don't you forget it's this semi-barbaric love. . .' |