If you haven’t yet sent thank-you letters for the gifts you received at Christmas, Nigel Molesworth has a time-saving solution for your consideration:
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[Source: Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, How to Be Topp: A guide to Sukcess for tiny pupils, including all there is to kno about SPACE (London: Max Parrish, 1954). The scan is from my personal copy.]
Ragged Claws Network 
First read this when I was 12 and it’s stuck with me ever since. ‘toy socks’ in particular struck me as the funniest thing I’d ever read. Still comes close, actually.
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