When she arrived at the library, she waved cheerily to Mrs. Gondola, the chief librarian, and wended her way through the shelves to the reference section. Her first port of call was Botley's Big Book of Everything; a title that ultimately proved to be rather misleading because it didn't have everything in it at all. Next she tried the phone book, but all she found in that was Skullington, Skullpan, Skullkingabout, and Skullfracture, four names that she decided were rather silly when all was said and done (which is an interesting observation from someone called Clownpuncher, but then one never notices what's right in front of one's face does one? This fact explains, for instance, why Quasimodo, despite having a face like an electrocuted sausage and a body that looked like a sack of coconu

