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The Gremlins Complete Text

"The nautic-minded gremlins got me," he said.

"What do you mean, nautic-minded gremlins?" asked Barry.

"Well," said Jamface, "they apparently came from the Coastal Command Station where they'd been doing a lot of flying over the Navy; they'd become very nautic-conscious, and they all wore sailor suits with little yellow Mae West jackets over them.

"One of them got into my plane, but we didn't find him until we were halfway back from Berlin. Then Gremlin Jamface came along, tapped me on the shoulder, and reported the presence of a nautic-minded gremlin on board.

"'What's he doing?' I asked, and Gremlin Jamface replied, 'He's climbed down onto your gas tank, bored a hole in the top, and gone in.'

"I said, 'Why did he do that?' and Gremlin Jamface looked at me as