Tipcat
Dreamed c. 1920? by Anonymous #57, a correspondent of Havelock Ellis
Call in the tipcat, cut off its tail
Fold up some eggs in a saucepan; Sit on the rest, like an elderly male, And gulp down the whole as a horse can. --Anonymous #57 |
SOURCE: The Dream World by Havelock Ellis, 1922
EDITOR'S NOTES
A tipcat is a small piece of wood tapered at both ends, used for a game also called tipcat. When the tipcat is struck with a bat, it springs into the air, and can then be batted for distance.
Ellis likes to explain away dreams as mere fusions of daytime images and word-associations, as here. Not that wordplay doesn't happen, especially in writers' dreams. I just disagree with Ellis that this is all. Even doggerel can have depth: reconsider that notorious dream-poem Hogamus Higamus.
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