Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter
"What would Robin Hood
have made of Country Life's recent excavation into the fantasies of
British 7-to-14-year-olds concerning the wild life and wild places of their
native land? Two thirds had no
idea where acorns come from, most had never heard of gamekeepers (do they mug
people or protect the Pokemons?), and most believed there were elephants and
lions running round the English countryside. A third did not know why you had
to keep gates shut -- was it to keep the elephants in (or was some joker taking
the piss just then?), or stop cows 'sitting on cars,' upsetting the countryside's
most vital beast -- the traffic?
