Matilda slipped into the cloakroom and got hold of the hat he wore each day to work.
She had to stand on her toes and reach up as high as she could with a walking-stick,
in order to hook the hat off the peg, and even then she only just made it.
The hat itself was one of those flat-topped pork-pie jobs with a jay's feather stuck in the hat-band and Mr Wormwood was very proud of it.
He thought it gave him a rakish daring look, especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie.
Matilda, holding the hat in one hand and a thin tube of Superglue in the other,
proceeded to squeeze a line of glue very neatly all round the inside rim of the hat.
Then she carefully hooked the hat back on to the peg with the walking-stick.
She timed this operation very carefully, applying the glue just as her father was getting up from the breakfast table.
Mr Wormwood didn't notice anything when he put the hat on, but when he arrived at the garage he couldn't get it off.
Superglue is very powerful stuff, so powerful it will take your skin off if you pull too hard.
Mr Wormwood didn't want to be scalped so he had to keep the hat on his head the whole day long,
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