AtDtDA(28): Bevis, the Story of a Boy

[Michael Bailey]

> This contributor, with a keen sense of sacrifice for the greater good,
> actually read the three-volume novel.

they had these kinds of books in our grade school library, if you
looked carefully...loved this stuff...and the English slang

in a similar vein:
Barsoom, the Mushroom Planet
Silly Spigot the Ghost
of course Wind in the Willows and The Hobbit
etc etc

(also Bevis Frond is a wonderful group)