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Arnie .linked, they passed) into the
jeuletainedl bedroom., ttauve-sshadled
candler' burned bio:'. the White overman-
fel, on, the table by the' '1'ace-canbpied
dot: Blinking Wave/ !e light, still only
half awake, lay Peter the Fourth. The
egeletInalelaned baby smiled ha!pppil:y'
at its' parents. Peter the Fourth, they
thought, would; have his mother's
hair, his' father's eyes; Peter the
Fourth, they thought' bat
what these two thought about their
eight -months' old skin would fill a
prologue, an epilogue, and a hundred
chapters icy between.
As Evelyn .confided,' early 'in the
summer, to Primula: '"I don't believe
a word of that go'osebenry.abus'h story,
Prim. I 'believe mummy and the
iplatler made, that child themselves.
They couldn't be so gone on it`
(`gone on,' acquired from Garton, was
the, schoolroom Word of the moment)
-"if they'd just found it."
Said 'Primula, sternly practical, "It
must be frightfully difficult to make
a 'baby. Think of its ears . . ."
The two' little girls came running,
fully dressed; into Patricia's. room
just as Peter slipped off for his bath;
stood chattering till Patricia shooed
them away and rang for Elizabeth.
§ 2
The Peter Jackson mh•o breakfast=
ed with 'his wife at a quarter to eight
on Armistice morning was a very
'different creature from the our Mr.
Jackson whose taxi 'had driven up to
22A Lowndes Square, four and a
half years previously. Grey hair
and lined face still betrayed the' af-
ter-effects of war: but 'his eyes, his
voice, the whole atmosphere of hap-
piness he exuded, testified a change
in the man's mentality,.'
• His essential creed Ahad not alter-
ed: he stilt believed in work, and in
successful work: 'he still loathed in-
efficiency, slackness, the never -mind -
to -morrow attitude. But love, im-
personated in Patricia, had softened
the harshness of his youth; taught
him the grand lesson of tolerance.
Love 'had nearly bridged that vast,
bitter gulf 'between fighting man and
stay-at-home: almost, he saw Eng-
land whole -not a country divided a=
gainst . itself, but a people Working
hand-in-hand for the common cause.
Love, too, had opened Peter Jack-
son's eyes, 'so that they saw not only
profits but 'beauty in the new work to
which he had dedicated himself.
Tihis new work prospered slowly,
as the land should prosper. Already
Capital had begun its revifying influ-
ence. Old man Tebbits' tumbledown
milking sheds existed no longer: in-
stead, were clean stables of 'brick and
tile, 'spotless pails and sterilized pans.
Useless wooden' structures, harbour -
age of rats, had been pulled down.
The ricks stood, stone -based, two
feet above griound. Charlie Tebbits
had rebuilt and enlarged old man Tele
bits' insanitary pigsties. A tractbr-
plough phutted in the fields.
Also -Peter's first coup-Tebbits-
Jackson, Ltd., 'had bought out the
Arlsfield `carrier,' a rickety old man
with a rickety old horse; replaced his
creaking equipage 'by a petrol deliv-
ery van; and made themselves mas-
ters of th'e transport situation. This
van, as Peter saw it, was to be th•e
forerunner of a fleet which should
carry passengers, market produce,
sell and buy eggs and milk, fruit and
honey and vegetables across half a
county. Plans for a 'bacon factory,
cheese factory, jam factory (and
tracings•.of a sugar -beet plant which
Peter had not yet dared show Harry
Tebbits) all lay locked away till .peace
time 'in the drawers of Peter's wal-•
nut -Wood writing -desk.
Sunflowers, run es a separate es-
taibifi•slh'm•entbl was tadneady unnucog-
niza'b'le. The paddock --silent, orig-
inal founder of 'T.-J.`s, Ltd.' -,,-existed
no longer.Only the pig path, fenc-
ed' from sties to woo'd's edge, still
showed a .band of narrowing green
ribbon am -toss the brown of plough.
All autumn, the 'paddock' had been
a mellow -gold_ riot of Russian sun-
flowers: Woo acres of 'high bloom
whose produce, bushel upon bushel of
the finest chicken -food, filled a dozen
zinc bins in 'the new poultry store-
room. Roger Fry had gione to the
war; Roger Fry's hybrids to the
stock -pot. In their place, came a
marvel of a man from St. Dunstan's,
the cheeriest soul for all his blinded
eyes that ever took good wages of a
Saturday, and two hundred black
Leghorn's who clucked a'bo{it orchard
and stu'b'bles from sunrise to sun-
downing.
'And it only in its infancy,'
thought Peter, helping himself to an-
other rasher 'of •Miss Tebbits' black
treacle curing, 'only in its infancy.
Scrap the 'State -control' fallacy. Give
every man his -chance. Let Capital
and Labour co-operate as we're co-
operating -and the Lord knows where
we won't get to in a dozen years of
pese&dee
"IiMhught to be off in about ten
minutes," she said to his. wife. "You
know what Dilly and Daily are at
this time in the meriting:"
`Dilly and Dally,' at Sunfllowers,
rrueant the inhabitants of Glen Cot-
tage, who kept a mystic time -table
of their own officially swpp'o•sed to
depend ' in Francis's working hours,
but actually adjusted -with meticu-
lous accuracy --'to weather conditions.
"When it's fine," 'Beatrice once con-
descended to explain, "Prout thinks
we -ought to rise with the sun,. When
it's wet; he doesn't think we ought
to get up at all."
"ti told them to be' ready by half -
past eight" -Patricia glanced at the
dock on the wall ibra'cket-"we don't
Want to scorch."
Prai'cis 'Gordon s3idea 'of Motoring
up td London for Arrnisti'ce Days --a
Poet -ilea forbidden by the anti -jay
ridiari provisions of the Detfdnce 'of
the Realm Aet-had entirely upset
► ante of Marled Life
the Sun fluwere-Te'l bits . routine, tTs.
wally, by !breakfast tiree oar Mr.
Jac&slpn had made his first inspection
ice the, poultr s.houses; visited the
milking sheds;' ,sped' 'Sidi ,Dyson on his
way to Arlafi'ehii Park ((Peter, after
endless finesse, had., sectred a tim-
ber -selling eomtra'et from the Colonel)
ldtsctissed his round with e'x-Coripor-
al Hankins, *he had one artificial
leg, two merry blue ,eyes, and a me-
chanic's passion for the delivery -clan,
and argued out at least. one abstruse
farming problem with Harry Telb-
bits. On this particular morning,
however, it was 'Hlarry Tebbits, pipe
in mouth, Who strode 'over -to see
Peter; found him, cap on head, coat
over arm, standing under the" beaten
walnut tree.
The blond giant opined that if
Peter really meant tb gio up to Lon-
don, the least Peter could do would
be to 'bring back some whisky.
Illy; ill," 'Said! Peter, PIMP do the
beet I can, Harry. 'But if the armis-
tice is signed, II expect London"ll be
drunk •dry by half -past. two. Don't
suppose you'll get much work, out
of the folk to -day, Harry."
The 'giant smiled. "Not much use
telling cows about armistices. Still,
I don't expect we'll kill ourselves.
Not to -day, at all events. Old Tig-
er's been after the skim again. Nev-
er saw such a' dog for the "milk."
'Tiger o' Sunflowers,' an enormous
silver -brindled Dane, lounged up 'the
drives gave his master • dignified
greeting. Patricia, furred'•and gaunt-
leted, came hurrying .out of the house.
"Well, I may as well see you safe
off the, premises," smiled Harry Te'b-
bits.
The three made their way to the
`garrige.' Passing the stables, they
heard. Driver Garton's "Now then,
'you"; Evelyn and Primula's raised
voices; the stamp of hooves on tile.
Wilhelmina, the bay filly who had
succeeded Little Willie in Peter's
horse -affections, 'was protesting as
usual about her morning toilet.
'Peter and Corporal Hankins had
spent all Sunday tinkering with the
Crossley, rubbing away the grease of
two years' idleness, fitting new spark-
ing -plugs, testing brake -shoes and
magneto, filling 'her petrol tank and
polishing her brass work. Still; the
car looked her age.
"Charlie'll have to give her a coat
of varnish one of these days," haz-
arded 'Charlie's brother, tapping
strong fingers 'on the bonnet. But
the engine started sweetly enough ;
and Peter, running hen out for Pa-
tricia to niount,'felt conscious of the
old driving -thrill.
'Shan't be a Dilly -Daily's till
nine," he said as she climbed up 'be-
tide him. Harry ran to open the
gate; Tiger , o'', Sunflowers smelt at
the Klaxon, bounded away 'barking at
the bark 'of it; Evelyn and Primula
waved good-bye from the stable -
door. They were 'off.
§ 4
By the meadow path it is a bare
mile from Sunflowers to Glen Cot-
tage: but the shortest road takes you
half -way to Arlsfield: circles a fair
portion of the Tebbits-Jackson land
before it dives towards the chestnut
trees of Arlsfield' Park.
It was a goodly November day;
soft gray clouds, sun a-tween, hint-
ing of rain to come.
They passed the eight acre vege-
table field--inter-cropped, potatoes
(already' dug) with winter green -
stuff, fat white -hearted savoys, in -
turned broccoli, curly -leaved kale and
hip th'i'gh Brussel sprouts; they
passed the 'warren' -fenced dip of
chalk -pitted land on. which Peter
.had turned down half a hundred
Belgian -hare does tb mate, with the
original inhabitants'; they skirted
two stu'bbles and a new -sawn patch
of pedigree wheat; hummed through
the 'borrowing spinney -and made
Glen Cottage 'by five minutes to nine.
The home 'of Francis and Beatrice
showed no signs of intensive cultiva-
tion; meadow land, over which Pet-
er's merinos and Peter's jerseys
browsed and grazed at will, ran down
to its eery walls. Three times the
indomitable Beatrice 'had engaged a
gardener, 'but eaeh time Peter, hun-
gry for men, enticed him away.
"Private gardens," said our Mr.
Jackson, "are out 'of date. Besides,
as your landlord, your greengrocer,
your carrier, your poulterer and your
dairyman--iI forbid it."
Beatrice christened' him the 'Octo-
pus of Arls'field'; but eventually su.
matted. She was standing at the cot-
tage gate as the Octopus and his
wife drove up. Fifteen Months of
matrimony had not altered Beatrice's
essential girlishness: but the face un
dein the close -fitting toque of ermine
seemed less pale than the day she
and Peter filet met; the gray eyes,
though still thoughtful, held more of
laughter.
"Dally won't be, a minute," she
smiled at them
Peter, with a jest about not wast-
ing 'gasoline,' throttled dotwn his' en-
gine; gave glance at cloak on dash -
beard as the two women kissed good -
morning.
"Cbnfound DaIly;' he said after a
while, "it's nearly ten past already."
Francis, followed 'by 'Putout, who
carried an enormous 'basket • and a
long thin parcel wrapped in 'brown
paper, limped 'out of the house. He
wote his usual 'brown overcoat, his
usual cream 'buckskin gloves, his in-
evitable old Etonian tie.
"What on earth have you got
there?" demanded his cousin.
"Feud, fizz and flags," chuckled
Francis. "Shove 'em in the tonneau,
Prout. If I 'knew London, we'll have
about as 'much chance of getting any-
thing to eat . . . " He superin-
tended the disposal of these ,treas-
ures; 'handed Beatrice into the car-
amel remembered he had lfiorgo'tbenS
her muff,' By the time PProut had•re-
trieved this, tucked in the 'young
c 'upie, and elosied the floor on them,
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it was twenty .minutes .past nine.
"Mile l
Patricia. IDitFe h' !eledi i -
fu "you watch." He o*ned the
throttle ae he spoke; fingered lever
gently from neutral to first, first to
second, second' tie top. Horse -chest-
nuts popped fro'n tire dovers as the
Crossley gathered way: Arlslf eld
Park, a blur of tree .trunks at side
and 'interlaced branches overhead,
spun behind therm, They missed Sid
Dyson's timber -tug by an ant's
'breadth; hooted past the Colonel's
crested gate-ipillars; s*itehhaek'ed
downhill towards' Henley.
'Dilly and Dally, feet tight -propped
against the provision 'basket, looked
at each other in mock alarm. "It
wasn't our :.fault," stammered Fran-
cis through chattering teeth; "why
wasn't the 'Octopus on time? ' He
said half -past eight."
Beatrice, craning forward a mom-
ent, eyed the speedometer. "What
are we doing, Beatrice?" "Forty-
five and a bit." "Lord'!"
'The car shot on, purring-ePeter,
nearly recumbent, notched wheel
gripped easily in gloved hands' -Pa-
tricia bolt ;upright, eyes .on the speed-
ing hedgerows.
They made the six miles to Henley
in a fraction over twelve minutes ;
swirled ri'ghthanded at the railway -
station; took the waster -front at a
hound; skidded the 'bridge corner on
two wheels. Church, bridge and riv-
er vanished like mad movies.
I"Going 'well," muttered .,Peter
through set teeth. White Hill rose
u'p.,like a roof ahead. "Open that cut-
out for m'e." Exhaust roaring, cylin-
ders throbbing, the Crossley hurtled
up between the trees; slowed to twen-
ty; felt herself flung back into sec-
ond; topped the rise; raced engine
the fraction of an instant; took top
gear 'again; shot on.
Houses, trees, a crawling dray,
flashed astern. Gray tarmac zipped
under. Ahead, the road rose; drop-
ped; rose again. Now, they were in
open country. Peter Wok one deep
breath; fidgeted throttle lever full
open; jammed foot 'on accelerator.
Couple 'behind felt the car gather her-
self as if for a great leap; saw pass-
,ing hedgerows fade 'out to a continu-
ous blur. Speedometer needle click-
ed to sixty; held there for three and
a half ecstatic minutes.
"Right, isn't it?" shouted Peter
suddenly. "Yes." .Patricia, r'riap on
knee, watched Hurley Bdttom skim
by. He stowed; climbed a hairpin
turn warily; nipped across the Thick-
et; veered left for (Maidenhead.
The clock at Nicholson's Brewery
showed five minutes past ten as they
crawled' carefully down into the town
-Opened out again for the bridge;
swished over'it past Skindle's.
"Shall we do it?" asked Pat.
"Question of luck." He opened the
cut-out again; roared' under Taplow
Railway viaduct. So far, road had
been almost empty. Now, other cars
appeared ahead. The Crossley raced
them down the Bath Road, passed
them one by one. Slough. vanished.
Something honked behind them, honk-
ed again. Peter, tires almost on turf
was aware of a Rolls-Royce bonnet,
of a dark -blue car sweeping by;
caught a glimpse of Arthur, in sky-
blue Air Service uniform, sitting rig-
id at th•e wheel.
'Crossley gathered way; Klaxon
barked furiously; Rolls-Royce swerv-
ed; Peter grin on set face, shot past.
Beatrice, peering over the 'back of
the cabriolet, saw Arthur's eyes
light; saw his hand move slowly, on
the wheel. Then the Rolls-Royce was
on them; creeping up, effortless, sil-
ent Honk! honk! honk!
"Drat the fellow," muttered • Pester.
For a mile, h•e refused way; then Ar-
thur, with two inches to spare, pur-
red calmly by; recognized Peter with
a wave of the hand -and disappear-
ed in dust.
Still, they made-lIounslow by half
past ten; edged warily over tram-
lines; pulled up for a second to avoid
disaster.
"Hope you're not joy -riding, sir,"
grinned a blue -helmeted constable.
"Joy -riding!" -Peter, hand on gear
lever, grinned 'back scornfully -"do
we look as if we were joy riding?"
Francis peeping overside, was under-
stood to mutter something about,
bringing the good news from Aix to
Ghent." •
None of the four quite remembers
how they made the last lap to Lon-
don. It comes hack to them as a
jerking, fidgety dream -- houses,
tram -lines, motor omnibuses; a scrap
of clear, straight read' here; turns
there; people staring, people cursing;
shop windows in which they saw
themselves skidding past; dogs div-
ing for cover; scream of Klaxon, jar
of gear lever, throb of engine
"Time?" , Peter kept asking. "Time,
Pat?" . . Ten thirty-five"
"Ten -forty." . . . "Quarter to,
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all but ten seconds." . . . "Damn
it, we must make Piccadilly by elev-
en o'clock." , More houses.
A pub. . . . Francis, head down
in the tonneau, groping for his flags,
hitting his head against the back of
the driving seat . . "Twelve
minutes to eleven." . . . Beatrice,
eyes on Peter's cap, muttering to
herself. "He'll never do it. I'll nev-
er forgive him if he doesn't do it-"
"Five to!" called Patricia - and
Fulham Road streaked' 'be'hind as they
zig-zagged in and 'out among sparse
traffic. . ,
"Three- minutes." What was
that? Oh, yes, Harrods: ,good old
Hlarrodsi. . . . "Xwe minutes
more." . The Hyde Park Ho-
tel whizzed by . . iRailing-A
clear. road. . . . Hyde Park cor-
ner ahead . and:
"Done it, I think," remarked our
Mr. Jackson, ,as a motor bus, sway-
ing out of Park Lane, missed their
rear mud -guards by' the grace of
God and two inches.
Thut of cylinders dropped to a
steady purr. Clubland on their left,
railings on their right, slackened
speed;, grew steady and' perceptible.
Traffic through which the Crossley
threaded easy way, appeared all
round them. They were in Picca-
dilly!
Clarges Street• -Half Moon .Street
-Bolton Street -known names, black
lettered on gray stone -Apsley House
-The Ritz -corner of Bond Street.
And suddenly, they heard a voice.
"P. J.!" bawled the 'voice. "Hi! P.
J.! Halt, will you! Halt, I say!"
Peter, jamming -brakes hard on,
felt the car skid under him; felt
wheels, jar against pavement; was a-
ware, of Francis shouting in his ear,
"Bravo, well -driven, old thing"; of
Beatrice and Patricia standing up, of
a taxi -cab two inches from his radia-
tor, of a motor -bus grinding to stand-
still -and of a little red man, with
flat red moustache on his face and'
faded red tabs on his uniform, a lit-
tle red man in huge dap, who came
dashing out of Scott's hat shop, bawl-
ing: t"`Halt, confound you, P J.!
Halt! It's eleven o'clock."
It was the Weasel; and even as the
Weasel darted' across the pavement,
London went mad and they with Lon-
don!
Pand'enionium . • broke loose a
tornado of sound --hems, whistles,
rowing -rattles,, bugles -men shouting
-women screaming. The five in the
Crossley couldn't hear pandemonium.
They were of 'pandemonium - crazy.
Brigadier -General the Weasel, palms
to mouth, straddling the radiator with
spurred legs, beating bonnet with his
cane, was hallooing like a lunatic:
"Forrard away!" hallooed the Weas-
el. "Forrard away! Forrard away!
Hi, tear 'em, tear 'em tear 'em!"Francis, scarlet in the face, bolt up-
right, lameness forgotten, bawled an
inarticulate "E -ton! Well rowed,
F. -ton!" Peter finger pressed home
on, the hoarsely -shrieking Klaxon,
was 'howling some Indian war -Whoop
'of his own. Patricia, dumb With em-
otion, imagined herself to be cheer-
ing. And Beatrice, 'the hyper -critical,
hyper -sensitive Beatrice, was yelling;
yelling at the top of her 'voice. "Ye,
ya, eat ya, ya!" yelled Heatrieeee
lout somehow or other she couldn't
finish the yell; dropped back, speech-
less, in the tonneau. . .
Pandemonium! Traffic had stop-
ped. There was no traffic: only mo-
tionless vehicles -lorries, motor om-
nibuses, taxis, a Bolls Royce, a han-
som cab -yes, a veritable hansom -
cab! And every vehicle swarmed
with men and women. Men and
women swarmed an eively )vehicle.
Swarmed and Shrieked and waved
flags. . . .
Pandemoniuma The very houses
had gone mad. The •houses were a-
:vc-aliee--alive with men and, wo-
men. The houses were wide open.
Men and wim'en poured out of the
houses into the streets. The streets
were alive with men and women.
They swarmed in the streets; swarm-
ed and danced and cheered and shout-
ed and waved flags. . ,
r'ard•em'onium! The flags had gone
mad. There were a million flags-,
Union Jacks and, Stars and Stripes, I
Tricolor flags and Belgian flags and }
Japanese flags; Italian flags and,
Portuguese flags, Commonwealth
flags and Dominion flags, Royal Stan-•
dards and White .Ensings. -
Pandemonium! Everybody w a s
moving -{vehicles were moving -peo-
ple were moving -flags were moving.
Their own flags -Union Jack with
Old Glory -were moving. The Cross-
ley was moving. . . .
"Forrard away!" 'hallooed Briga-
dier -General the Weasel, still astride,
the radiator. ."Forrard away, sir!" i
Peter howled back from the driving
seat. . . . !
Pandemonium! Everybody was'
dancing. The flags were dancing.
Men and women were 'dancing. Sol-
diers were dancing -English soldiers
and' Ailierican soldiers, French sol-
d!iers /end Belgian soldiers, Portu-
guese and Japanese and Italian sol-
diers. -lame soldiers. and legless sal -I
diers and armless boldi,ers-ill sol-
diers and well soldiers. Sailors were
dancing -English sailors and Ameri-
can sailors, French sailors and Ital-
ian sailors and' Japanese sailors. The
very' houses were dancing: floods of
white paper came dancing from out
of the dancing houses. Their own
car was dancing: her cushions were
dancing: they could feel her engine'
dancing, They themselves were
Varieties Of Red Clover
There are innumerable typiei of red
clover and within these types a num-
ber of varieties can be recognized of
which the two main varieties of ,prac-
tical iniportanee are 'the early and
late. 'In the growing crop no botani-
cal .differences can 'be used to distin-
guish these two varieties' 'but in habit'
they differ greatly. The early s com-
monly called early, two cut, and am-
ble cut, 'and as the name indicates
will ;seduce two full cuts in a season.
The late variety also called' single cut
and mammoth, produces only one cuff
ting which is' from two to three weeks
later than the first cut of the early.
Both have a place as a red clover
crop 'but it is importan't'that the buy-
er clearly understand what he is get-
ting,•wihen he orders red clover under
one of the names mentioned -one will
give 'twio cuts the other only one in a
reason,
London and Wingham
South
P.M.
Wingham 1.55
Belgrave 2.11
Blyth 2.23
Londesboro 2.30
Clinton 3.08
Brucefield 3.27
Kippen 3.36
Hensel) 3.41,,
Exeter 3.55--
North
.55`North
Exeter
Hensel'
Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
Londesboro
Blyth
Belgrave
Wingham
A.M.
'\ 10.42
10.55
11.01'
11.09
11.64
1210
12.19
12.30
12.50
C.N.R. Time Table
East
Goderich
Clinton
Seaforth
Dublin
Mitchell
West
Dublin
dancing: they could feel their hearts ,Seaforth
dancing inside them: the blood was; Clinton
dancing in their - eins, dancing and Goderioh
dancing. . . 1.
A.M.
6.45
7.08
'7.22
7.83
7.42
11.19 .
11.34
11:60
12.10
But late that Armistice Day at- C.P.R. Time Table
tern'o'on, when the five sat knee to East
knee in the closed motion ess car -
Hyde ,Park trees at its ' •lows, rain
tapping on its taut roof, when they
poured the dancing wine f Fran'ci's
forethought from golden bottle neck
and etinkeci brimmed' glasses in tok-
en 'of civilization's triumph Over the
Beast; when the Weasel, speaking
solemnly as though he were propos-
ing the King's Health on guest night,
gave them: "Our men, God bites
them, our splendid, splendid men!" Toronto
then Beatrice and Patricia could hale ' McNaught
sworn that they sate the tears of Walton
their own hearts reflected riot only Blyth . .
in their lover's' eyes, but in the hard
bite des aof r-+ Oral i Kotl,gs'
lays Stark, Roy'41: pieta' Artillery,
P.M.
2.80
3.00
8.18
3.31
8.43
9.44
9.57
10.11
10.87
A.M.,
Goderich 5.60
Nlenset 6.55
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JOHN GRIEVE, V.S.
IUJ nor graduate of Ontario Veiterin-
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and residence on Goderieh Street, one
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University of Western Ontario: Mem-
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Successor to Dr. Charles Mackay.
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
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Late assistaxt New York Opthal-
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By (albeit, Frankau.
,(Centinaued frown bet Week)
Arnie .linked, they passed) into the
jeuletainedl bedroom., ttauve-sshadled
candler' burned bio:'. the White overman-
fel, on, the table by the' '1'ace-canbpied
dot: Blinking Wave/ !e light, still only
half awake, lay Peter the Fourth. The
egeletInalelaned baby smiled ha!pppil:y'
at its' parents. Peter the Fourth, they
thought, would; have his mother's
hair, his' father's eyes; Peter the
Fourth, they thought' bat
what these two thought about their
eight -months' old skin would fill a
prologue, an epilogue, and a hundred
chapters icy between.
As Evelyn .confided,' early 'in the
summer, to Primula: '"I don't believe
a word of that go'osebenry.abus'h story,
Prim. I 'believe mummy and the
iplatler made, that child themselves.
They couldn't be so gone on it`
(`gone on,' acquired from Garton, was
the, schoolroom Word of the moment)
-"if they'd just found it."
Said 'Primula, sternly practical, "It
must be frightfully difficult to make
a 'baby. Think of its ears . . ."
The two' little girls came running,
fully dressed; into Patricia's. room
just as Peter slipped off for his bath;
stood chattering till Patricia shooed
them away and rang for Elizabeth.
§ 2
The Peter Jackson mh•o breakfast=
ed with 'his wife at a quarter to eight
on Armistice morning was a very
'different creature from the our Mr.
Jackson whose taxi 'had driven up to
22A Lowndes Square, four and a
half years previously. Grey hair
and lined face still betrayed the' af-
ter-effects of war: but 'his eyes, his
voice, the whole atmosphere of hap-
piness he exuded, testified a change
in the man's mentality,.'
• His essential creed Ahad not alter-
ed: he stilt believed in work, and in
successful work: 'he still loathed in-
efficiency, slackness, the never -mind -
to -morrow attitude. But love, im-
personated in Patricia, had softened
the harshness of his youth; taught
him the grand lesson of tolerance.
Love 'had nearly bridged that vast,
bitter gulf 'between fighting man and
stay-at-home: almost, he saw Eng-
land whole -not a country divided a=
gainst . itself, but a people Working
hand-in-hand for the common cause.
Love, too, had opened Peter Jack-
son's eyes, 'so that they saw not only
profits but 'beauty in the new work to
which he had dedicated himself.
Tihis new work prospered slowly,
as the land should prosper. Already
Capital had begun its revifying influ-
ence. Old man Tebbits' tumbledown
milking sheds existed no longer: in-
stead, were clean stables of 'brick and
tile, 'spotless pails and sterilized pans.
Useless wooden' structures, harbour -
age of rats, had been pulled down.
The ricks stood, stone -based, two
feet above griound. Charlie Tebbits
had rebuilt and enlarged old man Tele
bits' insanitary pigsties. A tractbr-
plough phutted in the fields.
Also -Peter's first coup-Tebbits-
Jackson, Ltd., 'had bought out the
Arlsfield `carrier,' a rickety old man
with a rickety old horse; replaced his
creaking equipage 'by a petrol deliv-
ery van; and made themselves mas-
ters of th'e transport situation. This
van, as Peter saw it, was to be th•e
forerunner of a fleet which should
carry passengers, market produce,
sell and buy eggs and milk, fruit and
honey and vegetables across half a
county. Plans for a 'bacon factory,
cheese factory, jam factory (and
tracings•.of a sugar -beet plant which
Peter had not yet dared show Harry
Tebbits) all lay locked away till .peace
time 'in the drawers of Peter's wal-•
nut -Wood writing -desk.
Sunflowers, run es a separate es-
taibifi•slh'm•entbl was tadneady unnucog-
niza'b'le. The paddock --silent, orig-
inal founder of 'T.-J.`s, Ltd.' -,,-existed
no longer.Only the pig path, fenc-
ed' from sties to woo'd's edge, still
showed a .band of narrowing green
ribbon am -toss the brown of plough.
All autumn, the 'paddock' had been
a mellow -gold_ riot of Russian sun-
flowers: Woo acres of 'high bloom
whose produce, bushel upon bushel of
the finest chicken -food, filled a dozen
zinc bins in 'the new poultry store-
room. Roger Fry had gione to the
war; Roger Fry's hybrids to the
stock -pot. In their place, came a
marvel of a man from St. Dunstan's,
the cheeriest soul for all his blinded
eyes that ever took good wages of a
Saturday, and two hundred black
Leghorn's who clucked a'bo{it orchard
and stu'b'bles from sunrise to sun-
downing.
'And it only in its infancy,'
thought Peter, helping himself to an-
other rasher 'of •Miss Tebbits' black
treacle curing, 'only in its infancy.
Scrap the 'State -control' fallacy. Give
every man his -chance. Let Capital
and Labour co-operate as we're co-
operating -and the Lord knows where
we won't get to in a dozen years of
pese&dee
"IiMhught to be off in about ten
minutes," she said to his. wife. "You
know what Dilly and Daily are at
this time in the meriting:"
`Dilly and Dally,' at Sunfllowers,
rrueant the inhabitants of Glen Cot-
tage, who kept a mystic time -table
of their own officially swpp'o•sed to
depend ' in Francis's working hours,
but actually adjusted -with meticu-
lous accuracy --'to weather conditions.
"When it's fine," 'Beatrice once con-
descended to explain, "Prout thinks
we -ought to rise with the sun,. When
it's wet; he doesn't think we ought
to get up at all."
"ti told them to be' ready by half -
past eight" -Patricia glanced at the
dock on the wall ibra'cket-"we don't
Want to scorch."
Prai'cis 'Gordon s3idea 'of Motoring
up td London for Arrnisti'ce Days --a
Poet -ilea forbidden by the anti -jay
ridiari provisions of the Detfdnce 'of
the Realm Aet-had entirely upset
► ante of Marled Life
the Sun fluwere-Te'l bits . routine, tTs.
wally, by !breakfast tiree oar Mr.
Jac&slpn had made his first inspection
ice the, poultr s.houses; visited the
milking sheds;' ,sped' 'Sidi ,Dyson on his
way to Arlafi'ehii Park ((Peter, after
endless finesse, had., sectred a tim-
ber -selling eomtra'et from the Colonel)
ldtsctissed his round with e'x-Coripor-
al Hankins, *he had one artificial
leg, two merry blue ,eyes, and a me-
chanic's passion for the delivery -clan,
and argued out at least. one abstruse
farming problem with Harry Telb-
bits. On this particular morning,
however, it was 'Hlarry Tebbits, pipe
in mouth, Who strode 'over -to see
Peter; found him, cap on head, coat
over arm, standing under the" beaten
walnut tree.
The blond giant opined that if
Peter really meant tb gio up to Lon-
don, the least Peter could do would
be to 'bring back some whisky.
Illy; ill," 'Said! Peter, PIMP do the
beet I can, Harry. 'But if the armis-
tice is signed, II expect London"ll be
drunk •dry by half -past. two. Don't
suppose you'll get much work, out
of the folk to -day, Harry."
The 'giant smiled. "Not much use
telling cows about armistices. Still,
I don't expect we'll kill ourselves.
Not to -day, at all events. Old Tig-
er's been after the skim again. Nev-
er saw such a' dog for the "milk."
'Tiger o' Sunflowers,' an enormous
silver -brindled Dane, lounged up 'the
drives gave his master • dignified
greeting. Patricia, furred'•and gaunt-
leted, came hurrying .out of the house.
"Well, I may as well see you safe
off the, premises," smiled Harry Te'b-
bits.
The three made their way to the
`garrige.' Passing the stables, they
heard. Driver Garton's "Now then,
'you"; Evelyn and Primula's raised
voices; the stamp of hooves on tile.
Wilhelmina, the bay filly who had
succeeded Little Willie in Peter's
horse -affections, 'was protesting as
usual about her morning toilet.
'Peter and Corporal Hankins had
spent all Sunday tinkering with the
Crossley, rubbing away the grease of
two years' idleness, fitting new spark-
ing -plugs, testing brake -shoes and
magneto, filling 'her petrol tank and
polishing her brass work. Still; the
car looked her age.
"Charlie'll have to give her a coat
of varnish one of these days," haz-
arded 'Charlie's brother, tapping
strong fingers 'on the bonnet. But
the engine started sweetly enough ;
and Peter, running hen out for Pa-
tricia to niount,'felt conscious of the
old driving -thrill.
'Shan't be a Dilly -Daily's till
nine," he said as she climbed up 'be-
tide him. Harry ran to open the
gate; Tiger , o'', Sunflowers smelt at
the Klaxon, bounded away 'barking at
the bark 'of it; Evelyn and Primula
waved good-bye from the stable -
door. They were 'off.
§ 4
By the meadow path it is a bare
mile from Sunflowers to Glen Cot-
tage: but the shortest road takes you
half -way to Arlsfield: circles a fair
portion of the Tebbits-Jackson land
before it dives towards the chestnut
trees of Arlsfield' Park.
It was a goodly November day;
soft gray clouds, sun a-tween, hint-
ing of rain to come.
They passed the eight acre vege-
table field--inter-cropped, potatoes
(already' dug) with winter green -
stuff, fat white -hearted savoys, in -
turned broccoli, curly -leaved kale and
hip th'i'gh Brussel sprouts; they
passed the 'warren' -fenced dip of
chalk -pitted land on. which Peter
.had turned down half a hundred
Belgian -hare does tb mate, with the
original inhabitants'; they skirted
two stu'bbles and a new -sawn patch
of pedigree wheat; hummed through
the 'borrowing spinney -and made
Glen Cottage 'by five minutes to nine.
The home 'of Francis and Beatrice
showed no signs of intensive cultiva-
tion; meadow land, over which Pet-
er's merinos and Peter's jerseys
browsed and grazed at will, ran down
to its eery walls. Three times the
indomitable Beatrice 'had engaged a
gardener, 'but eaeh time Peter, hun-
gry for men, enticed him away.
"Private gardens," said our Mr.
Jackson, "are out 'of date. Besides,
as your landlord, your greengrocer,
your carrier, your poulterer and your
dairyman--iI forbid it."
Beatrice christened' him the 'Octo-
pus of Arls'field'; but eventually su.
matted. She was standing at the cot-
tage gate as the Octopus and his
wife drove up. Fifteen Months of
matrimony had not altered Beatrice's
essential girlishness: but the face un
dein the close -fitting toque of ermine
seemed less pale than the day she
and Peter filet met; the gray eyes,
though still thoughtful, held more of
laughter.
"Dally won't be, a minute," she
smiled at them
Peter, with a jest about not wast-
ing 'gasoline,' throttled dotwn his' en-
gine; gave glance at cloak on dash -
beard as the two women kissed good -
morning.
"Cbnfound DaIly;' he said after a
while, "it's nearly ten past already."
Francis, followed 'by 'Putout, who
carried an enormous 'basket • and a
long thin parcel wrapped in 'brown
paper, limped 'out of the house. He
wote his usual 'brown overcoat, his
usual cream 'buckskin gloves, his in-
evitable old Etonian tie.
"What on earth have you got
there?" demanded his cousin.
"Feud, fizz and flags," chuckled
Francis. "Shove 'em in the tonneau,
Prout. If I 'knew London, we'll have
about as 'much chance of getting any-
thing to eat . . . " He superin-
tended the disposal of these ,treas-
ures; 'handed Beatrice into the car-
amel remembered he had lfiorgo'tbenS
her muff,' By the time PProut had•re-
trieved this, tucked in the 'young
c 'upie, and elosied the floor on them,
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it was twenty .minutes .past nine.
"Mile l
Patricia. IDitFe h' !eledi i -
fu "you watch." He o*ned the
throttle ae he spoke; fingered lever
gently from neutral to first, first to
second, second' tie top. Horse -chest-
nuts popped fro'n tire dovers as the
Crossley gathered way: Arlslf eld
Park, a blur of tree .trunks at side
and 'interlaced branches overhead,
spun behind therm, They missed Sid
Dyson's timber -tug by an ant's
'breadth; hooted past the Colonel's
crested gate-ipillars; s*itehhaek'ed
downhill towards' Henley.
'Dilly and Dally, feet tight -propped
against the provision 'basket, looked
at each other in mock alarm. "It
wasn't our :.fault," stammered Fran-
cis through chattering teeth; "why
wasn't the 'Octopus on time? ' He
said half -past eight."
Beatrice, craning forward a mom-
ent, eyed the speedometer. "What
are we doing, Beatrice?" "Forty-
five and a bit." "Lord'!"
'The car shot on, purring-ePeter,
nearly recumbent, notched wheel
gripped easily in gloved hands' -Pa-
tricia bolt ;upright, eyes .on the speed-
ing hedgerows.
They made the six miles to Henley
in a fraction over twelve minutes ;
swirled ri'ghthanded at the railway -
station; took the waster -front at a
hound; skidded the 'bridge corner on
two wheels. Church, bridge and riv-
er vanished like mad movies.
I"Going 'well," muttered .,Peter
through set teeth. White Hill rose
u'p.,like a roof ahead. "Open that cut-
out for m'e." Exhaust roaring, cylin-
ders throbbing, the Crossley hurtled
up between the trees; slowed to twen-
ty; felt herself flung back into sec-
ond; topped the rise; raced engine
the fraction of an instant; took top
gear 'again; shot on.
Houses, trees, a crawling dray,
flashed astern. Gray tarmac zipped
under. Ahead, the road rose; drop-
ped; rose again. Now, they were in
open country. Peter Wok one deep
breath; fidgeted throttle lever full
open; jammed foot 'on accelerator.
Couple 'behind felt the car gather her-
self as if for a great leap; saw pass-
,ing hedgerows fade 'out to a continu-
ous blur. Speedometer needle click-
ed to sixty; held there for three and
a half ecstatic minutes.
"Right, isn't it?" shouted Peter
suddenly. "Yes." .Patricia, r'riap on
knee, watched Hurley Bdttom skim
by. He stowed; climbed a hairpin
turn warily; nipped across the Thick-
et; veered left for (Maidenhead.
The clock at Nicholson's Brewery
showed five minutes past ten as they
crawled' carefully down into the town
-Opened out again for the bridge;
swished over'it past Skindle's.
"Shall we do it?" asked Pat.
"Question of luck." He opened the
cut-out again; roared' under Taplow
Railway viaduct. So far, road had
been almost empty. Now, other cars
appeared ahead. The Crossley raced
them down the Bath Road, passed
them one by one. Slough. vanished.
Something honked behind them, honk-
ed again. Peter, tires almost on turf
was aware of a Rolls-Royce bonnet,
of a dark -blue car sweeping by;
caught a glimpse of Arthur, in sky-
blue Air Service uniform, sitting rig-
id at th•e wheel.
'Crossley gathered way; Klaxon
barked furiously; Rolls-Royce swerv-
ed; Peter grin on set face, shot past.
Beatrice, peering over the 'back of
the cabriolet, saw Arthur's eyes
light; saw his hand move slowly, on
the wheel. Then the Rolls-Royce was
on them; creeping up, effortless, sil-
ent Honk! honk! honk!
"Drat the fellow," muttered • Pester.
For a mile, h•e refused way; then Ar-
thur, with two inches to spare, pur-
red calmly by; recognized Peter with
a wave of the hand -and disappear-
ed in dust.
Still, they made-lIounslow by half
past ten; edged warily over tram-
lines; pulled up for a second to avoid
disaster.
"Hope you're not joy -riding, sir,"
grinned a blue -helmeted constable.
"Joy -riding!" -Peter, hand on gear
lever, grinned 'back scornfully -"do
we look as if we were joy riding?"
Francis peeping overside, was under-
stood to mutter something about,
bringing the good news from Aix to
Ghent." •
None of the four quite remembers
how they made the last lap to Lon-
don. It comes hack to them as a
jerking, fidgety dream -- houses,
tram -lines, motor omnibuses; a scrap
of clear, straight read' here; turns
there; people staring, people cursing;
shop windows in which they saw
themselves skidding past; dogs div-
ing for cover; scream of Klaxon, jar
of gear lever, throb of engine
"Time?" , Peter kept asking. "Time,
Pat?" . . Ten thirty-five"
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all but ten seconds." . . . "Damn
it, we must make Piccadilly by elev-
en o'clock." , More houses.
A pub. . . . Francis, head down
in the tonneau, groping for his flags,
hitting his head against the back of
the driving seat . . "Twelve
minutes to eleven." . . . Beatrice,
eyes on Peter's cap, muttering to
herself. "He'll never do it. I'll nev-
er forgive him if he doesn't do it-"
"Five to!" called Patricia - and
Fulham Road streaked' 'be'hind as they
zig-zagged in and 'out among sparse
traffic. . ,
"Three- minutes." What was
that? Oh, yes, Harrods: ,good old
Hlarrodsi. . . . "Xwe minutes
more." . The Hyde Park Ho-
tel whizzed by . . iRailing-A
clear. road. . . . Hyde Park cor-
ner ahead . and:
"Done it, I think," remarked our
Mr. Jackson, ,as a motor bus, sway-
ing out of Park Lane, missed their
rear mud -guards by' the grace of
God and two inches.
Thut of cylinders dropped to a
steady purr. Clubland on their left,
railings on their right, slackened
speed;, grew steady and' perceptible.
Traffic through which the Crossley
threaded easy way, appeared all
round them. They were in Picca-
dilly!
Clarges Street• -Half Moon .Street
-Bolton Street -known names, black
lettered on gray stone -Apsley House
-The Ritz -corner of Bond Street.
And suddenly, they heard a voice.
"P. J.!" bawled the 'voice. "Hi! P.
J.! Halt, will you! Halt, I say!"
Peter, jamming -brakes hard on,
felt the car skid under him; felt
wheels, jar against pavement; was a-
ware, of Francis shouting in his ear,
"Bravo, well -driven, old thing"; of
Beatrice and Patricia standing up, of
a taxi -cab two inches from his radia-
tor, of a motor -bus grinding to stand-
still -and of a little red man, with
flat red moustache on his face and'
faded red tabs on his uniform, a lit-
tle red man in huge dap, who came
dashing out of Scott's hat shop, bawl-
ing: t"`Halt, confound you, P J.!
Halt! It's eleven o'clock."
It was the Weasel; and even as the
Weasel darted' across the pavement,
London went mad and they with Lon-
don!
Pand'enionium . • broke loose a
tornado of sound --hems, whistles,
rowing -rattles,, bugles -men shouting
-women screaming. The five in the
Crossley couldn't hear pandemonium.
They were of 'pandemonium - crazy.
Brigadier -General the Weasel, palms
to mouth, straddling the radiator with
spurred legs, beating bonnet with his
cane, was hallooing like a lunatic:
"Forrard away!" hallooed the Weas-
el. "Forrard away! Forrard away!
Hi, tear 'em, tear 'em tear 'em!"Francis, scarlet in the face, bolt up-
right, lameness forgotten, bawled an
inarticulate "E -ton! Well rowed,
F. -ton!" Peter finger pressed home
on, the hoarsely -shrieking Klaxon,
was 'howling some Indian war -Whoop
'of his own. Patricia, dumb With em-
otion, imagined herself to be cheer-
ing. And Beatrice, 'the hyper -critical,
hyper -sensitive Beatrice, was yelling;
yelling at the top of her 'voice. "Ye,
ya, eat ya, ya!" yelled Heatrieeee
lout somehow or other she couldn't
finish the yell; dropped back, speech-
less, in the tonneau. . .
Pandemonium! Traffic had stop-
ped. There was no traffic: only mo-
tionless vehicles -lorries, motor om-
nibuses, taxis, a Bolls Royce, a han-
som cab -yes, a veritable hansom -
cab! And every vehicle swarmed
with men and women. Men and
women swarmed an eively )vehicle.
Swarmed and Shrieked and waved
flags. . . .
Pandemoniuma The very houses
had gone mad. The •houses were a-
:vc-aliee--alive with men and, wo-
men. The houses were wide open.
Men and wim'en poured out of the
houses into the streets. The streets
were alive with men and women.
They swarmed in the streets; swarm-
ed and danced and cheered and shout-
ed and waved flags. . ,
r'ard•em'onium! The flags had gone
mad. There were a million flags-,
Union Jacks and, Stars and Stripes, I
Tricolor flags and Belgian flags and }
Japanese flags; Italian flags and,
Portuguese flags, Commonwealth
flags and Dominion flags, Royal Stan-•
dards and White .Ensings. -
Pandemonium! Everybody w a s
moving -{vehicles were moving -peo-
ple were moving -flags were moving.
Their own flags -Union Jack with
Old Glory -were moving. The Cross-
ley was moving. . . .
"Forrard away!" 'hallooed Briga-
dier -General the Weasel, still astride,
the radiator. ."Forrard away, sir!" i
Peter howled back from the driving
seat. . . . !
Pandemonium! Everybody was'
dancing. The flags were dancing.
Men and women were 'dancing. Sol-
diers were dancing -English soldiers
and' Ailierican soldiers, French sol-
d!iers /end Belgian soldiers, Portu-
guese and Japanese and Italian sol-
diers. -lame soldiers. and legless sal -I
diers and armless boldi,ers-ill sol-
diers and well soldiers. Sailors were
dancing -English sailors and Ameri-
can sailors, French sailors and Ital-
ian sailors and' Japanese sailors. The
very' houses were dancing: floods of
white paper came dancing from out
of the dancing houses. Their own
car was dancing: her cushions were
dancing: they could feel her engine'
dancing, They themselves were
Varieties Of Red Clover
There are innumerable typiei of red
clover and within these types a num-
ber of varieties can be recognized of
which the two main varieties of ,prac-
tical iniportanee are 'the early and
late. 'In the growing crop no botani-
cal .differences can 'be used to distin-
guish these two varieties' 'but in habit'
they differ greatly. The early s com-
monly called early, two cut, and am-
ble cut, 'and as the name indicates
will ;seduce two full cuts in a season.
The late variety also called' single cut
and mammoth, produces only one cuff
ting which is' from two to three weeks
later than the first cut of the early.
Both have a place as a red clover
crop 'but it is importan't'that the buy-
er clearly understand what he is get-
ting,•wihen he orders red clover under
one of the names mentioned -one will
give 'twio cuts the other only one in a
reason,
London and Wingham
South
P.M.
Wingham 1.55
Belgrave 2.11
Blyth 2.23
Londesboro 2.30
Clinton 3.08
Brucefield 3.27
Kippen 3.36
Hensel) 3.41,,
Exeter 3.55--
North
.55`North
Exeter
Hensel'
Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
Londesboro
Blyth
Belgrave
Wingham
A.M.
'\ 10.42
10.55
11.01'
11.09
11.64
1210
12.19
12.30
12.50
C.N.R. Time Table
East
Goderich
Clinton
Seaforth
Dublin
Mitchell
West
Dublin
dancing: they could feel their hearts ,Seaforth
dancing inside them: the blood was; Clinton
dancing in their - eins, dancing and Goderioh
dancing. . . 1.
A.M.
6.45
7.08
'7.22
7.83
7.42
11.19 .
11.34
11:60
12.10
But late that Armistice Day at- C.P.R. Time Table
tern'o'on, when the five sat knee to East
knee in the closed motion ess car -
Hyde ,Park trees at its ' •lows, rain
tapping on its taut roof, when they
poured the dancing wine f Fran'ci's
forethought from golden bottle neck
and etinkeci brimmed' glasses in tok-
en 'of civilization's triumph Over the
Beast; when the Weasel, speaking
solemnly as though he were propos-
ing the King's Health on guest night,
gave them: "Our men, God bites
them, our splendid, splendid men!" Toronto
then Beatrice and Patricia could hale ' McNaught
sworn that they sate the tears of Walton
their own hearts reflected riot only Blyth . .
in their lover's' eyes, but in the hard
bite des aof r-+ Oral i Kotl,gs'
lays Stark, Roy'41: pieta' Artillery,
P.M.
2.80
3.00
8.18
3.31
8.43
9.44
9.57
10.11
10.87
A.M.,
Goderich 5.60
Nlenset 6.55
MoG sse a `asse, 6.04'
Auburn ...., 6.11
Blyth 6.25
Walton 6.40
McNaaughtt 6.52
Toronto 10.25.
West
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