![]() Tootle comes upon a meadow full of buttercups. What else was he doing at night in the roundhouse as he thought about it? But he thought about it that night in the roundhouse.” “When Tootle got back to school, he said nothing about leaving the rails. It just sounds like Tootle was rolling past a gay bar (rather than the meadow in the book), and was seduced off the path of good (the tracks representing heterosexuality) into a life of filth and shame. What is Tootle’s impetuous for leaving the tracks he knows that he is not supposed to leave, no matter what? ![]() But, both words in the same story? Add that together with the overall story, and I feel like the presence of these two words helps to prove my point. I know that the words “gay” and “queer” were not exclusively used to describe homosexuals in 1945, as we tend to use them today. It’s very queer, but I found grass between Tootle’s front wheels today.” ![]() But all they can do is a gay little Tootle.”Ībout halfway through the book is the line: ![]() “The young locomotives steam up and down the tracks, trying to call out the long, sad TooOooot of the big locomotives. On the first page of the Little Golden Book edition is the following: Synopsis: Tootle attends the Lower Trainswitch School for Locomotives, but soon is distracted from his studies when he realizes he enjoys playing in the meadow more than staying on the tracks. TOOTLE, by Gertrude Crampton, Random House, 1945. ![]()
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