They never changed their underwear and they almost never brushed their teeth If they did they sometimes tried to use the same brush that they used to brush their hair The brush was covered in grease and grime and tasted of earwig droppings The McNastys hated brushing their teeth They also hated all children and they hated two children in particular Tat and Hetty who had stopped them from finding the lost treasure of Little Snoring
It was because of Tat and Hetty’s courage and resourcefulness that the Ghastly McNastys were stuck inside the belly of the whale with no way of getting out They had tried tunneling out using their hairbrush but without success because whale blubber is very thick
It was stinky and slimy inside the whale In fact it was so slimy that the McNastys kept falling over on their bums which made them more bad-tempered than ever They took
