"Quite wild animals" by Beatrice Curtis Brown
From a London garden by Arthur St. John Adcock is a collection of nature sketches and reflective essays written in the early 20th century. The book likely offers gentle observations of an urban garden’s plants, seasons, and visiting wildlife, blending quiet city life with musings on nature. The book you provided is a playful bestiary of invented creatures, each sketched in a brief character vignette with a comic twist and a hint
of moral. We meet Growp, a fierce “birst” who lives alone in a tin-and-saucer hut; Doolyboo, the impeccably mannered darling of every tea party; Bawgum, blustery yet soft‑hearted; and Queek, so lazy he never moved inside the house he built, living forever on the flower‑bed. Gorrible, weighed down by enormous feet, still performs a brave (if ankle‑deep) rescue; Bolla, light as a balloon from a feather diet, is forever blown away from home and happiness; and Golophos, all neck and pride, prefers dignity to earning a living. Others include the leg-led Squilly‑wiggle, the sly social climber Sloot, the uncouth elder Blumpleby who eats newspapers, the seashell‑nourished Skoonk who must write instead of speak, the cuddly heater‑like Pufftuffin with misgrown legs, Skutch who longs to be a coat‑of‑arms, Spinicum who lost one of his two tails, and the vain music teacher Shimmyhonk. Together, their foibles lampoon vanity, laziness, pretension, and kindness in light, witty snapshots. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Brown, Beatrice Curtis, 1901-1974 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 23015608 |
| Title | "Quite wild animals" |
| Original Publication | New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. |
| Credits | Charlene Taylor, Tom Trussel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Wit and humor, Juvenile |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77207 |
| Release Date | Nov 9, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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