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...screwed up his rubbery face with Chaplinesque glee as Baby Doll rolled out of her famed crib. As Eugene the Clubman he was defied by gravity. The Nairobi Trio, composed of three derbied apes, played a hilarious composition for xylophone, mallet and finger bone. There was even a custard...
...late; babies under his care have a spoon of thin oatmeal or barley when they are but two days old. At ten days vegetables are added; at 14 days, strained meats; at 17 days, strained fruits; at weekly intervals thereafter, orange juice, eggs, soups, mashed banana, custard puddings and "crisp bacon" (though the bacon has to be mashed with a fork...
Certainly not nigel molesworth the curse of st custard's. For it was he, the reader soon discovers, who stole the cheese from the matron's mousetrap, dropped the goldfish into the piano, set a bear trap by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, and rendered poor little Eustace Togglington insensible on the very first night of school, while trying out the "nuclear torturer...
...Topp, molesworth is an old lag at st custard's, and he finds it easy pappy if you can stand the pi-jaw (magisterial yatata). In case it all gets too much, nigel offers the molesworth daydream service ("Are you fatigued? Bored, rundown . . .? Help yourself to a MOLESWORTH DAYDREAM. Simple, easy to operate. No gadgets . . ."). Best among the catalogue of daydreams offered is the one in which the whole school is swept away by the grate st custard's flood, but molesworth and prudence entwhistle, the beautiful under-matron, survive in a rowboat ("how peaceful it is upon...
...true curse of st custard's, in effect, is not nigel but something called whimsy, which has long been the curse of British humor; but readers on both sides of the Atlantic who are willing to dig through a little of that sticky substance will easily get their molesworth...