Aha, well I kinda got this while I was formating it, and -- instead of holding back politely to let you soppy lot have a go -- I was so pleased with getting one answer (which I admit I had to look up to confirm) I followed through.
x: depending on the theme: is rather plausibly WELSH RABBIT, falsely rationalised as "rarebit" iv: this is the one I got at sight, thus-wise -- "KIPLING ALERT: Australian dog" is surely Yellow Dog Dingo, from Just So Stories which means the "gentleman dancing on an ashpit" is Old Man Kangaroo before he got his legs and was well and truly run after -- OMK started out as a kind of bouncy grey thing, so no doubt YDD called him such-and-such "rabbit"? Quick check, and yes: "That CAT-RABBIT" i: pretty sure this is the original African name for the Hare latterly known as BRER RABBIT iii: Watership Down for sure, and I believe GENERAL WOUNDWORT -- but ppl who read it more recently than me can confirm. viii: This is the WHITE RABBIT in Alice down the Bunnyhole: I think during in the trial, when he reads the charges out. ix: This sounds like Beatrix Potter's rhythm, but I'd have to check unless anyone has it by heart.
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Date: 2012-01-13 10:12 am (UTC)x: depending on the theme: is rather plausibly WELSH RABBIT, falsely rationalised as "rarebit"
iv: this is the one I got at sight, thus-wise -- "KIPLING ALERT: Australian dog" is surely Yellow Dog Dingo, from Just So Stories which means the "gentleman dancing on an ashpit" is Old Man Kangaroo before he got his legs and was well and truly run after -- OMK started out as a kind of bouncy grey thing, so no doubt YDD called him such-and-such "rabbit"? Quick check, and yes: "That CAT-RABBIT"
i: pretty sure this is the original African name for the Hare latterly known as BRER RABBIT
iii: Watership Down for sure, and I believe GENERAL WOUNDWORT -- but ppl who read it more recently than me can confirm.
viii: This is the WHITE RABBIT in Alice down the Bunnyhole: I think during in the trial, when he reads the charges out.
ix: This sounds like Beatrix Potter's rhythm, but I'd have to check unless anyone has it by heart.
So the theme is RABBITS and x is confirmed.