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When the train rolled into Los Angeles, the first sketch of the historic rodent was tucked safely in Walt's pocket, and the roughs of his first cartoon, Plane Crazy, were drawn. Plane Crazy, however, was not the first to reach the public. Sound came roaring in just then, and silent pictures silently expired. Walt rushed to New York, recorded sound track for a new Mickey Mouse cartoon called Steamboat Willie, and released it in Manhattan. "It's a wow!" cried one critic after another, and the public came piling in. Man was about to be conquered...
...with a tweet now and then-on his signal-whistles,which suddenly had faces that scrooged up as they blew. In the next release, our hero for the first foolish time met Minnie, a mousy young lady who looked as much like Mary Pickford as a rodent could. And all at once, for no apparent reason, there was Pegleg Pete, a monstrous mingling of common house cat and Long John Silver. Everything always went blooey, of course. Pegleg charging, music pounding, Minnie squealing-and Mickey rushing madly to the rescue...
This building also shelters 400 chickens a number of roosters, and a peculiar rodent known as the cotton rat which is indigenous to the Southwest United States and can jump over...
Though fearless in her frontline social work, Pepita admits to one great terror: "Of mice and rats I have a loathing." At the sight of a Korean rodent she is likely to shout and climb atop the nearest ration or ammo box. Chic in the best French tradition, Pepita admits to 38 years (the chivalrous French have omitted her age from the battalion records), is pleased that no one in Korea has made a pass at her. Says she: "They are so very correct, always. It is all one family, and I am their sister. Oh, they are so fine...
...idea that, by setting everyday events against a simple background, like figures against a sheet, he can make the human elements in them stand out more clearly. Sometimes he can, and with true invention. Pogo novices should be warned, however, that 182 pages of wit & wisdom from a small rodent can be almighty surfeiting. For best effect, this sort of thing should be taken, as is customary with War and Peace, a bit at a time...