″‘Do you think we’re going to leave this bath now?’ said Beaver Hateman, going menacingly to to Uncle.
‘Yes, I do!’
‘Well, you’re jolly well wrong! I’m going to stay here all night, if I want to!‘”
“Uncle is an elephant. He’s immensely rich, and he’s a B.A. He dresses well, generally, in a purple dressing gown, and often rides on a traction engine, which he prefers to a car.”
“For instance, he used when he was young to find it difficult to tell the truth always, but he wasn’t a very clever liar, because he couldn’t help blowing softly through his trunk when he was telling a lie...”
“It’s rather hard when you have a splendid house yourself that the chief view from your windows should be that of your enemy’s dingy fortress, but this had to be endured...”
“The Old Monkey’s uncle is called the Muncle and he’s a very nice person, but seems to live for footwear. Uncle likes him, but thinks he is a bit too fussy about shoes.”