23 Square Sweets That Look Round
Everybody stopped and crowded to the door. The top half of the door was made of glass.
Grandpa Joe lifted Charlie up so that he could get a better view, and looking in, Charlie
saw a long table, and on the table there were rows and rows of small white square-
shaped sweets. The sweets looked very much like square sugar lumps – except that each
of them had a funny little pink face painted on one side. At the end of the table, a
number of Oompa-Loompas were busily painting more faces on more sweets.
‘There you are!’ cried Mr Wonka. ‘Square sweets that look round!’
‘They don’t look round to me,’ said Mike Teavee.
‘They look square,’ said Veruca Salt. ‘They look completely square.’
‘But they are square,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘I never said they weren’t.’
‘You said they were round!’ said Veruca Salt.
‘I never said anything of the sort,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘I said they looked round.’
‘But they don’t look round!’ said Veruca Salt.
‘They look square!’
‘They look round,’ insisted Mr Wonka.
‘They most certainly do not look round!’ cried Veruca Salt.
‘Veruca, darling,’ said Mrs Salt, ‘pay no attention to Mr Wonka! He’s lying to you!’
‘My dear old fish,’ said Mr Wonka, ‘go and boil your head!’
‘How dare you speak to me like that!’ shouted Mrs Salt.
‘Oh, do shut up,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘Now watch this!’
He took a key from his pocket, and unlocked the door, and flung it open… and
suddenly… at the sound of the door opening, all the rows of little square sweets looked
quickly round to see who was coming in. The tiny faces actually turned towards the door
and stared at Mr Wonka.
‘There you are!’ he cried triumphantly¹. ‘They’re looking round! There’s no argument
about it! They are square sweets that look round!’
‘By golly, he’s right!’ said Grandpa Joe.
‘Come on!’ said Mr Wonka, starting off down the corridor again. ‘On we go! We
mustn’t dawdle²!’
BUTTERSCOTCH AND BUTTERGIN, it said on the next door they passed.
‘Now that sounds a bit more interesting,’ said Mr Salt, Veruca’s father.
‘Glorious stuff!’ said Mr Wonka. ‘The Oompa-Loompas all adore it. It makes them

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