Perelman Tonight: Putting on the feedbag -- Part 2 of "The Wild Blue Yonder" (Chapter 3 of "The Swiss Family Perelman")

Asia-bound on the SS President Cleveland

"One of the worst offenders, though it costs me an effort to confess it, was my own good lady, who was frequently to be observed recumbent in a deck-chair following these debauches, peepers as heavy-lidded as a constrictor who has just engorged a chicken."

-- from tonight's installment of "The Wild Blue Yonder"

by Ken

Last night we reestablished contact with the globetrotting Perelman family, now safely ensconced aboard the SS President Cleveland headed west across the Pacific from San Francisco. As last night's installment concluded, our narrator was "reminded by the cool liquid notes of the luncheon gong that I had taken no cool liquids for almost five minutes" and duly "rectified that," then headed for the ship's dining room -- "we joined the other colorfully clad tax evaders streaming down for their midday carbohydrates."

In the click-through we're going to back up a bit and pick up shortly before the point where we left off last night.


THERE'S A LOT OF SERIOUS EATING GOING ON
ABOARD THE PRESIDENT CLEVELAND -- CLICK HERE

THE SWISS FAMILY PERELMAN: OUR STORY SO FAR

Chapter 1, "Rancors Aweigh"
Part 1 -- Launching yet another journey
Part 2 -- San Francisco-bound
Chapter 2, "Low Bridge -- Everybody Down"
Part 1 -- The journey begins!
Part 2 -- Hooray for Hollywood!
Part 3 -- "Move over, Asia"
Chapter 3, "The Wild Blue Yonder"
Part 1 -- "Aboard the President Cleveland"

THURBER TONIGHT (including WOODY ALLEN, ROBERT BENCHLEY, BOB AND RAY, WILL CUPPY, WOLCOTT GIBBS, RING LARDNER, S. J. PERELMAN, JEAN SHEPHERD, and E. B. WHITE TONIGHT): Check out the series to date

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