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His Ichabod is a little boy making like Basil Rathbone.
Basil Cottle, a British scholar, in his book, The Plight of English (1975) [reviewed III,3], says that he likes gotten and feels that it is an improvement on mere got which he says is a nasty verb.
Dr. Basil Cottle, a scholar at the University of Bristol, in his useful little book, The Plight of English , devotes nearly four pages to it, describing it at the beginning as a deplorable little syllable.
Nor are they better (you asked for my favorites) than E.L. Konigsberg's From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler , or Louise Fitzhugh's books ( Harriet the Spy is best known, but the one I remember best is Nobody's Family Is Going To Change ).
You can provide for a child who attends St. Basil Academy, a ministry of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese where needy children are given the love and security of a home away from home.