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...TOPP (106 pp.)-Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle-Vanguard...
...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...
Bernard and Ethel lived happily ever after, because "he loved Ethel to the bitter end and . . . they had a nice house too." Mr. Salteena was less fortunate: though he had ten children by a nice girl "at Buckingham palace by name Bessie Topp," he was sulky about losing Ethel. "Still he was a pius man in his way and found relief in prayer...
Last week Ralph Carr Morrill, Peabody Museum taxidermist, was putting last touches to what remains of Ador Tipp Topp, Great Dane. When he reached the museum, Champion Ador Tipp Topp was treated as his predecessors were and his followers will be. He was carefully measured and sketched. Then Mr. Morrill smeared his head with vaseline to get a plaster cast. Next he was skinned. While a tanner prepared the skin, the museum's osteologists cleaned and set up his skeleton. Meanwhile, Taxidermist Morrill made a burlap & papier mache model of Ador Tipp Topp's body. On this dummy the taxidermist...