GOOD LORD! It's the Rabbitville Gazette!
When I was in Miss Wray's class at McKeough School in Chatham, in Grade 3/4 (taken in one year so I could go to a special Grade 5, one of those '60s educational experiments that led to total chaos and zero learning), sometimes we had a bit of free time. We could read whatever we wanted. I remember reading something called the Rabbitville Gazette, in some magazine or other. In fact, I liked the Rabbitville Gazette so much that I pawed my way through stacks of magazines to find issues that had the Rabbitville Gazette in them (because I soon figured out that it didn't appear in every issue).
Even then, I was ruthless in my digging around. Even then, I was a bloodhound. I WOULD find every issue of the Rabbitville Gazette, and I would read them all.
For some reason the name popped into my head today, I googled it, and. . .
YES! It really existed. It appeared montly in Jack and Jill magazine. I didn't subscribe to Jack and Jill, but it was common in classrooms. (I got a very strange magazine called Wee Wisdom which seemed to come out of the 1890s.)
I can see why I liked the Rabbitville Gazette. Though I can't read very much of it, it's funny and charming (I mean: Zoo Gnu News? A column called Useless Information?) And the Halloween "ghost editor" is best of all, though of course it would sail over the head of the average kid.
I like to picture a magazine run by rabbits. There would be no shortage of staff. Around March or April, everyone would suddenly disappear. Strange thumping noises would be common. Every once in a while there would be a sharp crack, followed by a piercing shriek.
Columns would be written about the atrocity of the lucky rabbit's foot, cautioning readers to count their feet every morning.
Not a lot of work would get done, rabbits being mostly concerned with other things. This is why they had to call in that "ghost editor".
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ReplyDeleteI'd like to work for the Rabbitville Gazette.
ReplyDeleteAnd what about the Ribbitville Gazette, consisting entirely of frogs?