Ginger & Pickles
by Mark Drzycimski
Aug 18, 2006
Containing what is possibly my favorite lines from a children’s story, Ginger & Pickles makes a Beatrix Potter Collection a worthwhile addition to your library. Not to mention Squirrel Nutkin, Timmy Tiptoes, or Mrs. Tittlemouse, which are invaluable on their own.
Ginger and Pickles were the people who kept the shop. Ginger was a yellow tom-cat, and Pickles was a terrier.
The rabbits were always a little bit afraid of Pickles.
The shop was also patronized by mice—only the mice were rather afraid of Ginger.
Ginger usually requested Pickles to serve them, because he said it made his mouth water.
“I cannot bear,” said he, “to see them going out at the door carrying their little parcels.”
“I have the same feeling about rats,” replied Pickles, “but it would never do to eat our own customers; they would leave us and go to Tabitha Twitchit’s.”
“On the contrary, they would go nowhere,” replied Ginger gloomily.
Beatrix Potter Ginger & Pickles
Worthy to be placed on the shelf next to your anthology of Milne’s Pooh Stories, when they’re on the shelf at all (which they aren’t).
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