Her father summoned all the courage he could muster, loaded his Dane gun, and asked his daughter to take him to this secret hole.

[…] I will, by to-morrow dinner-time, / Send him to answer thee, or any man, / For any thing he shall be charged withal:

I think, said Robert, after waiting in vain for his cousin to speak, that I shall call you Dorothy. It is a much prettier name than Dora. No, thank you, said Dorothy, quickly; Dora is good enough for the common purposes of life.

Politi had actually made multiethnicity a focus of his art (before it became the norm) and showed a penchant for expressions of ethnically costumed festive celebration in a simple, even semi-naïf vein (appropriate to children’s literature).