The Vicar of Nibbleswicke by Roald Dahl

Author:Roald Dahl [Dahl, Roald]
Format: epub, mobi
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ISBN: 9780140368376
Publisher: Lisa's E-Book Collection
Published: 1994-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

In the end it was the local doctor who guessed what was wrong. “What you’ve got,” he said, “is a very rare disease called Back-to-Front Dyslexia. It is very common among tortoises who even reverse their own name and call themselves esio trots. Fortunately.“ went on the good doctor, “there is a simple cure.”

“Tell me!” cried the vicar. “Oh please tell me!”

“You must walk backwards while you are speaking, then these back-to-front words will come out frontwards or the right way round. It’s common sense.”

The cure worked miraculously. There were problems, of course. The main one was that the poor chap couldn’t see where he was going without twisting his head over his shoulder, which was painful. But by attaching a small rear view mirror to his forehead with an elastic band, he overcame this difficulty. Sermons were also awkward, but the congregation very soon grew accustomed to seeing their vicar walking backwards round and round the pulpit while he was preaching. In fact, it added a nice crazy touch to what was normally a dreary proceeding. In the end, the Reverend Robert Lee got so good at walking backwards that he never walked forwards at all, and for the rest of his life he became a lovable eccentric and a pillar of the parish.

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