Charles
>>Isn't the story actually called "Puss in Boots" (i.e. a cat wearing boots) and sometimes "Puss 'n Boots" ?<<
Yes, and I don't recall 7-league boots in it. Maybe in some versions?
From memory, 7-league boots generally belong to a giant but shrink to fit the hero who acquires them. FWIW, a league is >20 miles, not a bad sort of step to take(!)
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
