"If Saunders minor had won it, his father was going to give him a silver watch and chain," I said, just to see how that would strike my father.
"No doubt Saunders minor's father felt perfectly safe," said my father.
Which shows how people misunderstand.
However, my father was jolly decent about it; and, in fact, so was everybody.
My sister asked me if I should read the Good Conduct Prize.
"The pictures are ripping," she said. "Giants and all sorts of things."
"The pictures, as you say, are ripping," I told her; "but, unfortunately, the story itself is far from ripping."
"How do you know if you haven't read it?" she said.
"By what the Doctor told me," I answered. "It is one of the noblest and most improving masterpieces in the English language, so, needless to say, I've got no use for it."
TOMKINS ON 'TINNED COW'