One of my favorite lines from The Water-Babies is this one about St. Brandan.
“Then he and his friends got into a hooker . . .”
Now, now. Get your mind out of the gutter. A “hooker” is a boat, which you might have been able to guess from context if you had read the whole paragraph! 😉
And that, my friends, is it for The Water-Babies, which now goes back to its shelf to rest for another 20-30 years.