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Archy and Mehitabel, collection of humorous stories by Don Marquis, originally published from 1916 in Marquis’s newspaper columns “The Sun Dial” in the New York Evening Sun and “The Lantern” in the New York Herald Tribune and published in book form in 1927. The stories centre on Archy, a philosophical cockroach who types messages to the author in lowercase letters (he is unable to activate the typewriter’s shift mechanism), and Mehitabel, a free-spirited alley cat...