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Loading... Back in the Jug Agane (1959)by Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle (Illustrator)
   Favorite Childhood Books (1,411) No current Talk conversations about this book.  Greatrakes | May 17, 2007 |   Chapters include: Returning to school. Extracts from the headmaster's memoirs. Hurrah for exams Co-education: school with girls the French exchange student Shopping with gran Field trips to a tractor factory and farm, a train trip, the airport. I am going to be Good this term! I luv gurls! many types of girls, dancing... Rules for Christmas New Year's resolutions, and daydreams of the future. Quite hilarious once again. (  ) tripleblessings | Oct 4, 2006 | no reviews | add a review
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I need hardly tell you the esential thing about a football i.e. nobody need tell me to get rid of it. i do not want it in the first place. Wot is the use of having a soaking wet piece of leather pushed at you? Give me a hadock every time, at least you can eat it. Poor Nigel Molesworth is back at St Custard's, being snarled at by Grimes and forced to endure the good old footer season. But despite the distractions of hideous Molesworth 2 and weedy fotherington-tomas, he will still share all his secrets to passing exams and being a grown up. But what's this? A resolution to be good? And to luv gurls? Is this the end of the Nigel Molesworth known and loved by millions - or will he be bored by teatime? 'Sublime' A.N. Wilson 'As any 'fule kno', Nigel Molesworth's orthographical idiosyncrasies, sturdy anti-authoritarianism and worm's eye view of the world are ever-captivating' Guardian No library descriptions found. 
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ME: Good morning, dere sir. i hope you slept well?
BEAK: (thinks) A trap! (He aim a vicious blow)
Take that, you dolt. Do you think you can rag me, the scurge of the skool?
ME: i forgive you, sir You look pale you hav drunk BEER last night. May i get you a pil?
BEAK: Stand on yore chair, molesworth. Any more and you will get 6!
ME: Do not open that desk, sir, it is full of old cucumbers put there by i kno not whom.
BEAK: Enuff! Wate for me outside.
(A vale is drawn over the foul proceedings.)
I got this from jumble sale for 10p and it was worth every penny.
I had never read a Molesworth before, but always meant to, I was disappointed. I had high expectations and although a few passages made me laugh out loud (like the Caesar and Livy sketch), on the whole I thought it had turned into a period piece.
I was just about getting used to the style by the end, so maybe I'll try anothe (