Roald Dahl Quotes
Then There Was A Hard Brown Lozenge Called The Tonsil Tickler. The Tonsil Tickler Tasted And Smelled Very Strongly Of Chloroform. We Had Not The Slightest Doubt That These Things Were Saturated In The Dreaded Anaesthetic Which, As Thwaites Had Many Times Pointed Out To Us, Could Put You To Sleep For Hours At A Stretch. "If My Father Has To Saw Off Somebody's Leg," He Said, "he Pours Chloroform On To A Pad And The Person Sniffs It And Goes To Sleep And My Father Saws His Leg Off Without Him Even Feeling It."
"But Why Do They Put It Into Sweets And Sell Them To Us?" We Asked Him. You Might Think A Question Like This Would Have Baffled Thwaites. But Thwaites Was Never Baffled.
"My Father Says Tonsil Ticklers Were Invented For Dangerous Prisoners In Jail," He Said. "They Give Them One With Each Meal And The Chloroform Makes Them Sleepy And Stops Them Rioting."
"Yes," We Said, "but Why Sell Them To Children?"
"It's A Plot," Thwaites Said. "A Grown-up Plot To Keep Us Quiet.
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