Book Review: The Annotated Archy And Mehitabel by Don Marquis - Page 3

oh well thats for bigger minds or ones that arent being bashed against the keys of an old remington every night to figure out

you know that their relationship didnt exactly get off on the right foot with mehitabel mistaking archy for a late night snack and forcing him to hide in the keys of the typewriter

but once she found he was a writer who could properly immortalize her why she was a lot less keen on eating him and keener to talk about herself

toujours gai she'd say always happy archy toujous gai and shed give him that big toothy smile that would probably have made him nervous as much as anything else and go off into the night to try her luck

she was your regular society girl was our mehitabel boss  only being inconvenienced in a minor way by her natural inclinations like motherhood but if she had one weakness aside from her pride and desire to always be a lady it was for the men folk of her species
ah boss the stories shed tell old archy about her men whod leave her high and dry but she kept her tail up proud and plump and it was always toujours gai archy toujours gai

now of course archy working at a newspaper as he did had to give his readers more diverse reading matter than only that pertaining to the life of a cat no matter how  interesting mehitabel thought herself there was news happening in the world at the time as important as her story

periodically archy would go into the field to report from washington d c he found that the insects there were so plentiful that nobody even noticed another cockroach  he reported that in the capital building no attention was paid to him because there were so many  other insects around

it gives you a great idea of the american people he said when you see some of the things they elect

he discovered what we all know too well today that everything is going great and that anybody who says things arent are spreading propaganda of the enemy the department of publicity is doing its best to suppress all rumours that it didnt start itself

washington sure doesnt sound much different today then it did back in archys day does it boss

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