Vice versa, or, A lesson to fathers

Anstey, F., 1856-19342015

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'Vice Versa' shows the disastrous consequences of having one's wishes granted where a father and son swap places. The father has to endure his son's boarding school and the son gets the opportunity to run his father's business. Mr. Bultitude is unmoved by the pleading of his fourteen-year-old son Dick that he be spared from returning to Grimstone's tortuous boarding school. During his harangue on the free and easy life of youth, Mr. Bultitude unwisely expresses the wish that he himself might be a boy again - whilst clutching the magical Garuda Stone, which is all too ready to oblige by transforming his outward appearance into that of his son's. To add insult to injury, Dick swiftly seizes the stone - and with it, the opportunity not only to assume his father's mature and portly form, but also gleefully pack Mr. Bultitude off to the hellish halls of Grimstone's...