The Twits [平裝] (蠢特夫婦)

內容簡介

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it looks so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it." How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything — except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. They don't just want out, they want revenge. Annotation The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.

《蠢特夫婦》（Magic Finger）這篇童話講述一對令人討厭的蠢特夫婦的故事。蠢特先生長了一臉大鬍子，是個又髒又臭的老頭子；蠢特太太則心地險惡，外貌其醜無比。這對從裡到外都十分醜惡的夫婦，相互間勾心鬥角，例如，蠢特太太用自己的玻璃假眼球捉弄蠢特先生，還捉了一些蚯蚓攙到蠢特先生的面條裡；而蠢特先生捉了一隻大青蛙放到蠢特太太的床上……他們還無情地欺負小動物和小孩子。他們要猴子做任何事都必須拿大頂，包括吃飯、睡覺，如果猴子不服從，就無情地毆打它們。這終於惹惱了小猴子。蠢特夫婦準備射殺群鳥，猴子就跟鳥兒們建立了「戰略聯盟」，提醒鳥兒們不要棲息在塗滿「一點靈」的樹枝和房頂上，而是站在猴子籠上，讓蠢特夫婦吃不上「鳥肉餡餅」。猴子們還設計了一個「以其人之道，還治其人之身」的計策，它們闖進蠢特家，用「一點靈」膠水塗滿天花板，然後把家裡的家具擺設一件件倒貼在天花板上。蠢特夫婦回家時完全傻眼了，以為自己出了問題，於是自動做起「拿大頂」！猴子和鳥兒們最終懲治了這對壞傢伙:蠢特夫婦的腦袋被粘在了地板上。他們無法掙脫，時間一長，人開始收縮，就像患「收縮症」。