The Perishers his bathtime struggles with Wellington usually turn into epic battles. Boot's favourite food appears to be links of sausages, and his attempts to consume these in advance of Wellington provide the basis of many episodes. Boot was originally drawn with a short tail (on one occasion he met a bob-tailed sheepdog, and on hearing the name decided to call his own tail Fred), but Maurice Dodd later discovered that real Old English Sheepdogs' tails are docked, and so over the course of several years Collins drew his tail shorter and shorter until it vanished altogether – Boot still appears completely
The Wreck of the Hesperus (with Paddles)". In the 1948 Donald Duck "Pearls of Wisdom" comic strip, the triplet ducklings are rowing a boat called "Hesperus II". In the 1950 Warner Brothers cartoon, "The Ducksters", Porky Pig demands that Daffy Duck tell him "In what latitude and longitude did the Wreck of the Hesperus occur?". In a 1941 Popeye short, titled "Child Psykolojiky", a picture of the Hesperus with caption is seen hanging on Pappy's wall. In "First Among Sequels", book five of the Thursday Next series, the character of Anne Wirthless travels into the poem and tries to rescue the captain's daughter. She saves