In a previous incarnation Archy the Cockroach was a free-verse poet, while his companion Mehitabel, a cat in her ninth life, claims to have been Cleopatra. Archy records their songs and observations on the boss’s typewriter late at night. But he is not strong enough to make capital letters so it all comes out lower case.

contents:

• i. the coming of archy
• ii. mehitabel was once cleopatra
• iii. the song of mehitabel
• iv. pity the poor spiders
• v. mehitabel's extensive past
• vi. the cockroach who had been to hell
• vii. archy interviews a pharaoh
• viii. a spider and a fly
• ix. freddy the rat perished
• x. the merry flea
• xi. why mehitabel jumped
• xii. certain maxims of archy
• xiii. warty bliggens the toad
• xiv. mehitabel has an adventure
• xv. the flattered lightning bug
• xvi. the robin and the worm
• xvii. mehitabel finds a home
• xviii. the wail of archy
• xix. mehitabel and her kittens
• xx. archy is shocked
• xxi. archy creates a situation
• xxii. mehitabel sings a song
• xxiii. aesop revised by archy
• xxiv. cheerio my deario
• xxv. the lesson of the moth
• xxvi. a roach of the taverns
• xxvii. the forward lady bug
• xxviii. pete the parrot and shakespeare
• xxix. archy confesses
• xxx. the old trouper
• xxxi. archy declares war
• xxxii. the hen and the oriole
• xxxiii. ghosts
• xxxiv. archy hears from mars
• xxxv. mehitabel dances with boreas
• xxxvi. archy at the zoo
• xxxvii. the dissipated hornet
• xxxviii. unjust
• xxxix. the cheerful cricket
• xl. clarence the ghost
• xli. some natural history
• xlii. prudence
• xliii. archy goes abroad
• xliv. archy at the tomb of napoleon
• xlv. mehitabel meets an affinity
• xlvi. mehitabel sees paris
• xlvii. mehitabel in the catacombs
• xlviii. off with the old love