POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 136, 10 June 1943, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLACE

When you come to think of it—to.be ' a Nazi is to be a German. # ♦ ♦ Wouldn't it be dreadful if Winston . Churchill had to forgo fat cigars and turn to cigarettes for a sedative. i«♦ ' * A spaghetti-eating contest was recently held in a town in Italy. We hear that one of the competitors was given 20 yards start. The presence of British subjects in! the French Riviera greatly displeases' the Nazis. They demand of Laval that he put all of them into a concentration camp. # - ' BEE FOR BARCLAY. ' I So the Canterbury beekeepers refuse . ito be stung by the Infernal Marketing BeeS" -E.C.R. * ■ * * PLAINTIVE. Dear Mr. - Nash,—Re your Third Liberty Loan: I am sorry I can only: make it £SG—I must still keep one shirt,—Yours truly, . > \ DUSTMAN. ft # ft GOLDEN BOOKS. It is fascinating to reflect, in this age of cheap and plentiful literature; that books were once as scarce aswell—lemons are today. In fact, be* fore the second half of the fifteenth century, books were not merely luxuries, but quite unattainable by any but the richest. Historians tell us, writes "Whitton," that in the seventh century a king of Northumbria gave 800 good acres in. exchange for a single volume; that a French countess gave 200 sheep for a book of essays; and that in 1270 a Latin Bible fetched £30. In the Middle Ages it cost as much to make a copy of the Bible as it did to build a church. * -.*: "FISHY BUSINESS. 1* , Dear Percy Flage,—lt is wonderful how one's thoughts fly off at a tangent whilst listening to Parliamentary broadcasts. For instance, when the Budget was being broadcast the other night I found myself hearing in retrospect scraps of conversation heard at the "Fisherman's Rest" last hols., thus: "A red-herring across the trail"; "a sprat for a mackerel"; "you should have seen the one that got away"; "used the wrong bait," etc., etc. Inexplicable, wasn't it? . Simple Peter went a-fishing For to catch a whale; But all the water he had got • Was in the taxpayers' pail. BERHAMP.ORE. ft ' ♦ • ■-. TAXES. A tax on this, • A tax on that, A tax on our shirt, our suit, and our hat; A tax on tobacco, and food we eat, A tax on the shoes, and the socks on our feetIt seems most strange, ; One can hardly believe, We are taxed on the money we don'i receive. , , Still, ere we grumble or grouse at our taxes, Just think of the tax piling up for the Axis. C.E.N. *. * ♦ INFORMATION. Dear Percy Flage,—There "has been an argument in our.office as to whether a touring Indian hockey, team has ever played a curtain-raiser to a senioii Rugby football match at Athletic Park • since 1935. Could any reader of youi column please enlighten us on this question? Regards to Column B.— Yours faithfully, - •■ - ; . —"BLOCKHEAD." No Indian hockey team has played a curtain-raiser to a senior Rugby match at the Park since 1935. Twice in 1935 the Indian hockey team played on the Park: June 1 and June 29— the latter when it met the New Zealand team in a Test match.