Oxford Junior Silences Wind in the Willows, Strikes Fear in Piglet
Audible cries rattled the WILLOWS along the river where OTTER lived when good-natured Mole brought news that the head honchos at Oxford had struck his name from their Junior Dictionary. Toad, who enjoyed all the latest fads, wasn't upset until he realized that there would be no more stilted HERONS pounding down the river (a lovely phrase he discovered reading Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men). "Yea gads!" exclaimed Badger. "Will I be the next to go?" Even the WEASELS, who had taken over Toad Hall, were aghast. "Hair today, gone tomorrow!" In Winnie the Pooh's forest, just a short dusty walk down the bookshelf, another ruckus broke out when Christopher Robin brought the news to his woodland gang. "Dear dear little PIGLET," he said, "I'm afraid you have become defunct." Piglet's smile turned upside down. "What's defunct?" Pooh asked. Christopher Robin shook his head. "It means kaput. Gone...