Banks, Bingo bucks the current trend by being extremely happy, although he does tend to lose his shirt on various horses. This collection of wonderfully funny stories features a cast of outrageous characters.

    Chavender's own one-time fiance, "Ham King" J.B. Duff, whose rotten product spoils her breakfast.

    In his later years, his favorite work was writing the tales spun by Dr. Dogbody, a peg-legged old salt who never lets the truth get in the way of a good story. Doctor Dogbody's tales vividly recreate the Napoleonic Wars, and delight with broad comedy, rollicking naval adventure, and characters that will live on in the reader's memory.

    The fables are imperishably illustrated, and are supplemented by Mr. Thurber's own pictorial interpretations of famous poems in a wonderful and joyous assemblage.

    A woman calling herself his step-mother arrives from England and Hector and Auntie Robbo realize that they have to run away. The chase leads all over the north of Scotland, narrowly escaping police and the authorities, adopting three homeless children on the way.Ann Scott-Moncrieff tried to publish Auntie Robbo in 1941, but the book was rejected because deemed to be "too Scottish". Today, Auntie Robbo is revived and reprinted in this beautiful new edition by Scotland Street Press.