Animals' Mother Goose Up-To-Date

This newspaper comic strip adapts the nursery rhyme "Little Jack Horner" with an anthropomorphic hippopotamus as protagonist. The single panel shows the hippo seated in a corner, eating bakery pies arranged before it, while clothed in striped garments and a patterned vest. The verse below the image follows the original rhyme's structure but adds contemporary humor through animal substitution. The strip exemplifies early-twentieth-century Sunday comic practice: simple pen-and-ink illustration, large letterpress text integrated with image, and reliance on familiar source material reimagined with animal characters. Such adaptations appeared regularly in newspapers, blending Victorian literary traditions with the emerging visual language of sequential art.