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Footnotes
"Beware of adults, whether parents or beaks. They hav only one wish i.e. to make noble upright boys like them chiz. And look at them! Wot a lot, eh?"; These rather insalubrious types, the wolfish beak gleefully awaiting his victim and the world-weary schoolmaster, appear in the self-styled "curse of st. custards" and "gorilla of 3B" Nigel Molesworth's "Guide to Grown-Ups" in Willans and Searle's The Compleet Molesworth (1948) and Back in the Jug Agane (1949).
Provenance: Purchased by the present owner in Cambridge c.1970. See illustration overleaf.
Saleroom notices
The date of these drawings should read 'circa 1958'. 'The Compleet Molesworth' was published in 1958, 'Back in the Jug Agane' in 1959.

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