Thursday, March the 11th, 2004

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World O' Cake

Yesterday was the birthday of long-time Hooting Yard reader Chris Atton. To celebrate the event, Dr Ruth Pastry has supplied two more pictures by Neville Main, onlie begetter of Mat and Nat, the ur-Istvan and ur-Zoltan whose cheery countenances were featured yesterday. Today we have a monkey cutting a birthday cake which is gobbled up by ducks—that's something you don't see every day. (The captions suggest that the ducks only got the leftover crumbs, but I doubt it. Have you seen ducks eat?) The pictures are from Jimmy Goes To A Birthday Party (1950).

World O' Cake: Birthday1World O' Cake: Birthday2

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