It seems that she also owned or possibly leased a biplane. No mention is made of if she employed a biplane pilot. I wonder if Enid had a commercial pilot’s licence? What has become of her log-book?

He is permitted one thing – every night an instructive reading from Mr. Key’s excellent prose. Last night’s reading was an instructive chapter from the life of the tiny adventuress in which she gives an interlocutor named Lancelot advice on the capture of ostriches:

http://www.hootingyard.org/archive/nov04.htm

It occurred to me some time after my infant lay fast asleep, that this Enid seems to be more worldly wise. She smokes a cigarillo (hardly the habit of a tiny infant). Am I correct detecting a note of world-wearyness or was this my imagination?

And how was Tiny Enid known when she reached her maturity? Was she still short of stature? Or perhaps she remained tiny in some other unspecified way.

Why is it that we only read of Tiny Enid as a child? I assume that she did not suffer from a genetic abnormality that preventer her from reaching adolescence and then maturity, so unless she was cut down in her prime (e.g. by a pox) then one must conclude that the infant Tiny Enid eventually became a not so tiny woman, who would not doubt continue her acts of pluck and heroism.

But there lies the mystery – all of the tales of Tiny Enid refer to her as a child. She never seems to grow up, and there’s no plausible explaination for lack of an adult narrative.

Did she, for example, tire of doing good deeds and retire to a pig-farm in a nameless country with an un-memorable flag? Was she cut down in a civil war? Lost at sea? Buried by an avalanche? Driven mad by piblokto, or just fall from fashion as society became obsessed with new and not so tiny stars of reality TV.

Or is it that there never was a Tiny Enid – perhaps she is a mythical creation, intended to embolden children by her splendid example.

Do tell.