Walt Kelly, 1969, Pogo: Prisoner of Love. The book begins, as they so often do, with a secessionist plot. Actually, this is the only one that does that, but it does a real bang-up job. The new anthem is popular because it's all sung on one note. You know the one, it begins "I was eating some chop suey."
In the second part of the book, the women of the swamp, led by Miss Sis Boombah, the formidable chicken, decide that they have been mistreated. They retaliate by attempting to marry the president, who happens to be Pogo. Along the way, a treasure, a ghost, or possibly a skeleton, is discovered. Firearms are employed, to little effect. Finally, all's well that ends well. And there is cake.
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