Saturday, 27 August 2022
I met an odd tricycle on the road today, and at first glance took it
for a motorcycle pulling a trailer.
This reminded me of a secondary character in a comic strip I read in
the late fifties. He traveled by pedalling a small building (Home?
Workshop? Store? I *think* it was a workshop.)
His name might have been "Humphry"; the strip might have been Joe
Palooka
It was Joe Palooka. Wikipedia spoils a lot of conversations. But
Wikipedia didn't say anything about Humphrey Pennyworth except that he
was a smiling giant blacksmith -- the travelling building must have
been a smithy. (Under a spreading chestnut tree the village smithy
stands.)
But the brother and sister who ran an orange farm were not in this
strip. They were secondary characters who frequently got an arc of
their own, but didn't take over the way Snuffy Smif took over Barney
Google.
No way I can look that up without remembering a bit more. There was
an arc in which a multi-billionaire tried many ways to make them rich,
and all failed miserably.
--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/
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