The Animals' Mother Goose Up-To-Date

This Sunday newspaper strip modernizes the traditional nursery rhyme 'Hey Diddle Diddle,' replacing human characters with anthropomorphic animals in a dreamlike sequence. A cow jumps over the moon while a cat plays violin and a fox carries a rifle, each occupying distinct panels arranged around a central cloud formation. The artist employs the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: bordered panels, action lines, expressive character design, and a punning caption explaining the fantastical imagery as the dreams of a Welsh rabbit. Published in the Sunday funnies, this strip exemplifies how turn-of-the-century cartoonists adapted classic literature for the newspaper page, blending Victorian illustration traditions with the new sequential art vocabulary that would define the modern comic strip.