I too used to read these when I was little, and I've never been without a copy of either Archy & Mehitabel or Archy's Life of Mehitabel. Like so many other wonderful things (including Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) they started out as newspaper columns. I love to think of the newspaper readers of the 20's reading these! How delightful that must have been.
I once had a cat called Mehitabel. She was a stray of course, but died having kittens because she had chronic cat flu, poor thing; her last surviving kitten, Ink, is now nearly 15.
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