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The Plum-pudding Flea

A flea who appears in a nonsense rhyme.

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First appearance: one hundred nonsense pictures and rhymes

The Plum-pudding Flea shows up with force in Chapter VII: The History of the Seven Young Geese. The page is where that presence becomes real.

A bizarre one-legged creature with a round body, wings, beak, and three feathers, which barks lethally at the Geese.
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In Chapter VII: The History of the Seven Young Geese: A bizarre one-legged creature with a round body, wings, beak, and three feathers, which barks lethally at the Geese. Later, in Chapter XII: Of What Occurred…

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TBThe Broom, Sho…MAMr. and Mrs. S…MAMr. and Mrs. D…TPThe Plum-pudding Flea

Relationship types

  • Other

Character groups

  • Personified household items
  • Anthropomorphic domestic couples

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SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

Lady Jingly’s tearful confession that she already has a mate in England delivers the emotional peak of unfulfi…

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See The Plum-pudding Flea in one hundred nonsense pictures and rhymes