OT: Widgets - just a bit of nonsense

[Graham Samuel]

It so happens that I’m digitising Roald Dahl’s first book, written when he was still a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, and I came across this. Forgive any lack of political correctness - it was a very long time ago:

> “I've just found a nest of widgets,” he said, and looked around in triumph. 
> “Widgets?” said Stuffy. “Widgets? Never heard of them!” 
> But Jamface went on. “As I said, I've just found a nest of widgets located in the rear turret of my plane. There were twelve of them very young ones.” 
> “What are widgets?" asked Gus. 
> “It's very simple,” said Jamface. “Widgets are the young of gremlins and fifinellas. No one knows until they grow up whether they are going to turn into males or females, but it's usually males; in each nest of twelve widgets only one will eventually turn into a fifinella.” 

Back to work…

Graham