ABSTRACT
Some English readers, especially members of the Stock Exchange, who at one time seemed to make her particularly their own, may be surprised to find Little Audrey amongst the mythological heroines of folklore. The exact date and place of her origin, as with so many characters in folklore, is uncertain. With her peculiar brand of naïve, desperate cynicism, she perhaps dates from the depression period. Little Audrey is a folk-lore character about whom thousands of nonsensical short tales have been told. Sometimes Little Audrey parades as Little Emma or Little Gertrude, but she usually is recognizable by a catch phrase. A nice thing about Little Audrey is her integrity. Typical adjunct to life in the hell-roarin’ days of the Argonauts, when camps reeked gold and the humours of men were raw as new-plowed prairie land, was that effervescent phenomenon known as the Whizzer.
