"And where's Bart?" Grandfather Smallweed inquires of
Judy, Bart's twin sister.
'Look here; here's all this
judy's clothes falling to pieces again.
And all the while there was running through his head Kipling's line: "AND THE COLONEL'S LADY AND
JUDY O'GRADY ARE SISTERS UNDER THEIR SKINS." It was true, he decided; though the novels he had read had led him to believe otherwise.
And there, with the acrobats on one side of them and the Punch-and-
Judy show on the other, they would hang out a big sign which read, "COME AND SEE THE MARVELOUS TWO-HEADED ANIMAL FROM THE JUNGLES OF AFRICA.
I'd never be able to do those compound multiplication sums the teacher gives us to do at home every night if I didn't get
Judy Pineau to help me.
But it was all good and innocently youthful, and I learned one generalisation, biological rather than sociological, namely, that the "Colonel's lady and
Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins."
I took an evening walk in Turin, and presently came across a little Punch and
Judy show in one of the great squares.
of playing "
Judy O'Flannagan and Paddy O'Rafferty."
She exaggerated the Punch and
Judy aspect of life, and spoke of mankind as puppets, whom an invisible showman twitches into love and war.
He ground his teeth at the crying balloons; he cursed the moving pictures; and, though he would drink whenever asked, he scorned Punch and
Judy, and was for licking the tintype men as they came.
Lord Lundie strove to disembarrass himself of his accoutrements much as an ill-trained Punch and
Judy dog tries to escape backwards through his frilled collar.
Probabilities are as various as the faces to be seen at will in fretwork or paper-hangings: every form is there, from Jupiter to
Judy, if you only look with creative inclination.