Can Steve the Cart Horse and his master find the fabled treasure hidden in the castle, which will stop the guy who holds the mortgage from foreclosing on the willowy Lady May? And will all the dialogue be in rhymed couplets?

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Or perhaps that's simply because they've fallen out of public consciousness. Either way, when Roland Davies decided to turn his popular comic strip into a cartoon series, he had to found his own cartoon studio. The result looks extremely primitive to an eye used to the 'candy-box' style of animation that Disney was producing at the time, but the gags come thick and fast.

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