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The Gremlins Complete Text

Gremlin Gus sat still for a few moments. Then, very slowly, taking a great risk of tumbling off and being drowned, he crawled forward. Leaning over Gus's forehead, he wiped the salt water out of his master's eyes with a tiny little handkerchief.

Four hours later they were picked up by an R.A.F. rescue launch and landed at a little village on the Sussex Coast.

One evening a few days later, when the pilots were once more drinking ale in the mess, and the talk was all of gremlins and fifinellas, Jamface burst into the room in a state of high excitement.

"I've just found a nest of widgets," he said, and looked around in triumph.

"Widgets?" said Stuffy. "Widgets? Never heard of them!"

But Jamface went on. "As I said, I've just found a nest of widgets located in the rear turret of my plane. There were twelve of them – very young ones."

"What are widgets?" asked Gus.

"It's very simple," said Jamface. "Widgets are the young of gremlins and fifinellas. No one knows until they grow up whether they are going to turn into males or females, but it's usually males; in each nest of twelve widgets only one will eventually turn into a fifinella."