Volume 1 Whops and Clobber R Humphries - The Woody Back to ...

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Much to her surprise Jojo found herself at the
center of attention amongst her new acquaintances
and the subject of considerable admiration for her
stoic behavior. Miss Joanna Heyworth had been
formally inducted into the world of Whops and
Clobber.
Life as a Little Brat could be tough. When they
were not in the lecture rooms or in the hall
completing assignments they were at the permanent
disposal of their Personal Drapers. Every minute of
free time was taken up with running errands, cleaning
the prefect’s studies and performing other duties,
known as ‘grubbing’ in Woody parlance.
Nonetheless Jojo found time to study Cathryn
Cassidy’s subversive doctrine, ‘the Manifesto of Megaminxdom’
and was an instant convert. Joanna and
Nicola Jane quickly formed a bond with two other
celebrity Ladettes, Debs Morton and Rosemary
Booker. Like Jojo and Nix, Debs and Rosie had been
stitched up like kippers by the Dark Agents of the
System in pursuit of the huge bounties paid for
diverting the Great Unwashed from the government’s
numismatic buffoonery.
The four new chums soon began to get
themselves spanked with record-breaking frequency.
They were highly competitive, matching each other
spank for spank and raising the bar for inventive
goofing, japing, pranking and larking to an
unprecedented standard.
Despite the tradition of alienating the Little
Brats during their first year of incarceration and the
cynical philosophy that grubbies should be seen and