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The Gremlins Complete Text

It was three days after the first gremlin had appeared in the mess, and Gus and Stuffy were having breakfast after doing their dawn "stand-by."

Suddenly Jamface burst into the room in a high state of excitement. "I've seen a fifinella!" he announced.

"Don't be a nitwit," said Stuffy, and he was just about to say a lot more when there was a rustle of silk at the other end of the table, and something skipped nimbly across, dodging around the teapots, and stopped right in front of Stuffy.

It was a fifinella.

She stood there, hands on hips, enjoying their amazement. The pilots eyed her intently, from her small, elegant, curly horns down to her handsome white buckskin boots. She returned their stares. Then she looked straight at Stuffy and said, in a high, shrill little voice that tinkled the glasses on the table, "Who's a nitwit?"

Stuffy just sat and stared, so the fifinella gave Jamface an enormous wink, caught a swaying curtain, swung herself onto the window sill, and was gone.

Jamface looked at Stuffy and asked in very satisfied tones, "Now who's a nitwit?"