It is best not to mess with SpoonWalkers. Nathaniel Bowbridge (self styled gentleman scientist) had a theory that SpoonWalkers could and would use forks if these were the only utensils available to them.

Accordingly he trapped several SpoonWalkers and isolated them in a cage with only forks available. They did indeed hobble about unhappily on forks but before Nathaniel could write up his findings his housekeeper arrived one morning to find the lock of the cage expertly picked by a fork, the SpoonWalkers gone, all the spoons missing from the kitchen and Nathaniel Bowbridge dead, repeatedly stabbed.

He was, in the words of Detective Inspector Edgeworth, “completely forked!”

(Text by Bob Fry, image by Keith Errington)