Oliver B. Bumble

The first Tom Puss stories were told as illustrated novels, published in daily installments in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.

As Tom Puss was noble and heroic, later stories came to depend on the flawed and kind-hearted Oliver B. Bumble as an initiator of events.

An animated movie based on the series named Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel ("If you know what I mean," one of Bumble's catch-phrases) was released in 1983.

He is a modest bear though; he always dresses in a simple checkered coat and his car, nicknamed "De Oude Schicht"[2] ("The Old Bolt (of lightning)"), is reliable, but not extravagant.

[2] His compassion and sense of justice can sometimes move him to do great things,[4] although it's usually others, most often Joost and Tom Puss, who do the actual work.

The first is Miss Doddle, Bumble's Dulcinea and his prime source of fresh tea, courage and resolve in times of great emotional turmoil.

The second great admirer is the dwarf Kwetal who thinks Bumble has a big thinking-frame ("denkraam") and who blindly trusts his judgment.

[2] In many ways Bumble is an antihero, blundering blindly through life, forced by fate, one of several villains or Dorknoper, civil servant first class and tax-collector, to make decisions which greatly influence his world.

The source of Berendinus was the answer by an editor in the Tom Poes magazine, and thus one given with a semblance of authority, which explains the popularity of the claim.

An acceptable translation might be Oliver B Bumble, Lord of the manor, most of all because in the very last story, there's a mentioning about the remaining manorial rights, that from now on will stay there forever.