Unpleafant Furprife

One copy of The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter did sell. The man at the bookstore wasn't surprised. Well, he was surprised that anyone would pick up a copy of the Nice and Accurate Prophecies, but everyone knows that sailors are superstitious.

The clerk, an honest boy by the name of David Young, passed the sailor's payment on to Goody Nutter.

"It'f the gold ye'll be wanting now, it if," Agnes said when the sailor returned. "Take it and go, and remember to keep your bootf infide your cabin at night, elfe you may get an Unpleafant Furprife."

Twigg forgot the spinster's warning until the day he put on his boots and found that a prankster had dropped a chocolate pasty inside. One perfectly good pair of striped stockings: ruined.