![]() ![]() "It's a mug's lag" and they are also able to prevent the attempt to kill the Duke and Duchess of Battersea. The children are kidnapped, shipwrecked, and saved to find out the True Facts of their birth revealed by a telltale tuft of hair Justin is just as glad not to be a lord. Then there's Sophie, also an outcast from the Poor Farm, now in service to Lady Battersea, along with his new friends- Justin, presumably the Battersea heir, and Dido Twite, barely kept alive on a diet of fish porridge. He comes up to London to live with the Twites (Hanoverian plotters) whose celler is an arsenal, and they may account for the disappearance of his friend, Dr. ![]() Anyway, from its beginning to its happy, happy ending the saga of Simon, nobody's boy from Globber's Poor Farm, continues. It's right on the spoor to The Wolves of Willoughby hase, that parody of the Victorian novel which amused many adults and still bemused others as to its suitability for younger readers who might not have the reading background to get the point. ![]()
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