As It Occurs To Me whispering something and at one point exits pursued by a bear; a reference to a stage direction in "A Winter's Tale". Tiny Andrew Collings is also famous for exclaiming his own compliments and pretending they came from the audience, with the faux self-effacing phrase "Be quiet, you people in the crowd saying those things". Despite having died at the end of Series Two (reciting the poem "Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep"), Tiny Andrew returned on the Edinburgh special, claiming responsibility for most of the bad things that had occurred to Richard over the previous month (with the
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated "Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated" contains 28 fables written and illustrated by Thurber. "Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated" contains nine poems written by diverse authors and illustrated by Thurber (the dates given are those of The New Yorker issue): Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated is a 1940 book by James Thurber. Thurber updates some old fables and creates some new ones of his own. Notably there is 'The Bear Who Could Take It Or Leave It Alone' about a bear who lapses into