Toby Twirl Tourtel, an assistant editor of the "Daily Express". Tourtel devised Rupert Bear shortly after the end of World War I, in 1920, when the "Daily Express" was in competition with "The Daily Mail" and its then popular comic strip “Teddy Tail” (featuring a mouse called “Teddy Tail”), as well as with the comic strip “Pip, Squeak and Wilfred” (respectively, these are the names of a dog, penguin, and rabbit) in the "Daily Mirror". Each panel of Tourtel's comic strip story was accompanied by a narrative in rhymed verse. These are the very first ("Daily Express", 8 November 1920): The title
Two Years Before the Mast us of Melville” and “other passages seem to anticipate him”. (Melville, born in 1819, was exactly four years Dana's junior, and returned from his first tour as a seaman when "Two Years Before the Mast" was first published in 1840): The following description of the English sailor, Bill Jackson, has literary similarities to Melville's "Billy Budd": Writes Morris, "Dana is something more of a poet than either he or his contemporaries were aware; and that his ignorance of this gift was a loss to him as well as to us." With the onset of the 1849 California Gold Rush, Dana's