This strange phrase is taken from Charles Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend, in which the widow Betty Higden says of her adopted foundling son Sloppy, "You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper.
Странная фраза взята из романа Чарльза Диккенса «Наш общий друг», в котором вдова Betty Higden говорит о её сыне-подкидыше Sloppy, «You mightn’t think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper.