The Tale of Mr. Tod: The original and authorized edition: 14 (Beatrix Potter Originals)

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The Tale of Mr. Tod: The original and authorized edition: 14 (Beatrix Potter Originals)

The Tale of Mr. Tod: The original and authorized edition: 14 (Beatrix Potter Originals)

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Note alo, crime stories appeal disproportionately to women — for whatever reason, this is a female genre. Beatrix Potter was the perfect candidate to create such a work. In his book, Goldthwaite writes of Potter’s “deception”, suggesting that those of Potter’s tales that were the most heavily indebted to Harris’s stories open with “pretence of absolute originality”:

That fox isn’t off his face though. He comes home after a bad night of hunting and he’s wanting some breakfast. When he finds the badger in his bed, he only means to wake him up with a cold water surprise. OPPONENT Took a Level in Badass: Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, who were Action Survivors at best in their own stories, are the main heroes in this one.

Mr. Tod’s proceedings were peculiar, and rather difficult (because the bed was between the window and the door of the bedroom). He opened the window a little way, and pushed out the greater part of the clothesline on to the window-sill. The rest of the line, with a hook at the end, remained in his hand. Both academics are clearly great admirers of Potter, who is considered a national treasure – not only for her tales but for her conservation work and the bequeathing of her extensive land and property to the National Trust. She has very few critics. Benjamin recognised one in a blue coat, his cousin, Peter Rabbit. ‘Peter! Peter Rabbit!’ he shouted. He approached his house very carefully, with a large rusty key. He sniffed and his whiskers bristled.

Again from the fields down below in the mist there came the angry cry of a jay, followed by the sharp yelping bark of a fox! I will wash the tablecloth and spread it on the grass in the sun to bleach. And the blanket must be hung up in the wind; and the bed must be thoroughly disinfected, and aired with a warming-pan; and warmed with a hot-water bottle." But when the men arrive home with the rescued babies, Flopsy forgives her father-in-law and he is rewarded with a pipe, even though the misdemeanour of negligence hasn’t changed. (I wouldn’t hire him again, would you?)

The African roots of the Peter Rabbit tales

Nobody could call Mr. Tod “nice.” The rabbits could not bear him; they could smell him half a mile off. He was of a wandering habit and he had foxey whiskers; they never knew where he would be next. Harris’s fictional narrator, Uncle Remus, was a formerly enslaved old man who was content with plantation life and for whom everything was “satisfactory”. Remus was based on, and propagated, a racist, minstrel-style stereotype that was deeply embedded into white American culture and consciousness. Old Mr. Bouncer, very sulky, was huddled up in a corner, barricaded with a chair. Flopsy had taken away his pipe and hidden the tobacco. She had been having a complete turn out and spring- cleaning, to relieve her feelings. She had just finished. Old Mr. Bouncer, behind his chair, was wondering anxiously what she would do next. In the middle of the bed under the blanket, was a wet flattened something—much dinged in, in the middle where the pail had caught it (as it were across the tummy). Its head was covered by the wet blanket and it was not snoring any longer.



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