'When his wife scolds him, Mr Jigsaw literally falls to pieces, which Mrs Jigsaw finds very annoying. She sends him away with threepence, a new toothbrush, and a clean handkerchief. Mr Jigsaw meets a boy with his feet back to front and takes him home with him after Mr Jigsaw has been stuck together by the Glue Man' (
Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature 350).