
Beasts, Boy Scouts, and a Kitty Named Jacko
By Bill Willingham Down the Mysterly River came about chiefly because of my love of talking animal stories: everything from the old French “beast tales” of Reynard and Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus stories, to the more modern tales like Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, C.S. Lewis’s tales of Narnia, Orwell’s Animal Farm…