This strip made me realize that few critters in the Okefenokee were married. They were a bunch of singulars, sometimes widowed or divorced. Let's see, there was the Raccoon family, the Barnstable Bear family, the occasional bug family. Mmm, who else? Grundoon had a mother, did he have a father? I don't recall. Oh, Pogo's sister had a husband. Oh yeah, Sam Handwich was with family.
January 19, 1962
There were Myrtle and Herm, a pair of rare birds (cranes?) in some strange part of the swamp where Churchy's washtub spaceship crashed on Nov. 30, 1952, just before Pogo's adventure with the little guys (Melonbone et al.).
ReplyDeleteOver on the Facebook "I Go Pogo" group, Cam Ford has just pointed out another seldom-noticed married couple: Basher and the lady kangaroo (whose name might be Sheila if it isn't just Australian slang for "nice lady" when the wombat calls her that). As evidence that they're married, Cam points out that Sheila, dropping Mouse into her pouch, says to Basher "I suggest we adopt the nipper" (11-24-1956); also that Basher somewhere (I haven't found it yet) calls her "Mother" (as some husbands/fathers do to their wives).
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