Author's Note
I hope that my publishers are wrong when they say that this is a shocking novelette. I did not mean it to be when I wrote it, and I do not believe that any one with a sense of humour will find it so. Still less is it a book with a purpose. I hope that somewhere a school like Llanabba may exist, and a staff like Dr. Fagan's, but it has never been my good fortune to come across them. In fact, I have never met any one at all like any of the characters, nor have I yet been sent to prison. I apologise heartily to any one who sees himself in this tarnished little mirror; everything is drawn, without malice, from the vaguest of imaginations.
Please bear in mind throughout that
it is meant to be funny.
E. W.
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