Chapter 3 Summary

The Baudelaires go to see their new home and are sorely disappointed. The shack is filled with tiny, pinching crabs that are not happy to see the children enter their space. Three bales of hay serve as beds and the ceiling is covered in brown fungus. Every so often, the fungus drips a foul liquid onto the floor and the hay. The walls are painted bright green with small pink hearts.

Violet, Klaus and Sunny do their best to find the good in their new situation. The prospect of going to school appeals to Violet and Klaus and Sunny hopes that her new job will be fun, even if she is too young to be an administrative assistant.

The children realize that it must be lunchtime and hurry to the cafeteria to avoid being late. There, they find an enormous lasagna the size...