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encounters a certain measure of novelty .
In China , for instance , dried rats are
white mice served alive , dipped in treacle
esteemed a delicacy . The visitor is told
off a fever . A number of newly-born
and swallowed like a prairie oyster is
considered a piece of resistance .
and that a stewed black rat will ward
that they restore the hair of the bald
over with flour , you will find a stack of it
high opinion of the octopus as an article of diet .
it , press it and dry it , in which form , dusted
in almost any provision shop .
a delicacy while Mediterranean peoples have a
So have the Japanese and the Chinese . The
Among the natives of Northern Australia lizards
Celestials , apart from eating it fresh , squash
roasted on the point of a spear are definitely
Commons agreed was that of the first poll-tax . The manifest
the remainder . The method of assessment to which the
A sum of 160,000 was demanded - a staggering figure
two-thirds of this sum providing the clergy supplied
was a fairer target , and the Parliament agreed to find
weight by a flat-rate tax at treble the rate - every adult
corrected by the sliding scale of the second poll-tax ,
had to pay three groats , but this time an adult was re-
to mediaeval eyes . It was determined that 100,000
but this lesson was ignored , and the injustice trebled in
injustice of this method had been to a certain degree
men were out a fortnight , disciplined and solid ,
common man . )
when only 20 per cent of them stood to gain
( In this strike , as reported in the Sheffield
cent made sacrifices for their fellow men ;
this remarkable strike raised the question of a
anything from the strike and the other 80 per
living wage and showed the worth of the
Guardian in March of that year , 1,000,000
This new party , the British Socialist Party , was
socialist thought in the city , but sought to create
people .
not prepared to accept the role of junior helper
in the Labour movement , or of only providing
propaganda in order to increase the volume of
in the Labour movement a more militant attitude
capable of achieving socialism for the working
who was to become a very intimate friend , and I was
solicitor cousin . As Bishop Talbot had told me that I
Vicar of St. Mark's , Woodcote , Purley , a new church built
IN 1913 Dr. Burge , Bishop of Southwark , asked me to go as
ought not to spend many years in Tatsfield , we held
great family consultations .
later on joint executor of his estate with his
by the well-known architect Mr. George Fellowes Prynne ,
a close friend of ours .
his family , and found a very suitable house nearby
Dr. John Leake , who lived at Blackheath , and was
My eldest brother was then living in Limpsfield with
at the age of 92 . Dr. Burge was not able to be present
This was taken by the Suffragan Bishop of Woolwich ,
where my mother settled , and eventually died in 1926
at the Institution and Induction Service in St. Mark's .
This was called Ellen Avenue when I first went
service . I soon saw that the parish needed
a flourishing Sunday School and an evening
We also had a little Mission Hall leading off
sounding name of Lansdowne Road . There
district .
were lots of children there , and we had
the Brighton Road , in a street full of small houses .
there , but was soon changed into the better-
more help both at the church and Mission
district and got to know , and be known by , many of
the people of the parish .
Most fortunately I was able to engage the Rev. E. U. Evitt in
Lansdowne Road district , but I needed more help in the
The Church Army Captain had done very good work in the
1913 soon after I had come , and he organized the Mission
church for the full rota of services on Sundays and weekdays .
that one of us must volunteer . The Bishop , Dr. Burge , did
not wish me to go then , as I had barely been in the parish
A great blow disturbed all our efforts in the following
the Forces were urgently needed , and I felt clearly
than his Vicar , and he was accepted at once and
work until his health broke down and he had a bad
year , 1914 , when war broke out . Very soon Chaplains for
was very soon in France where he did splendid
for a year . Mr. Evitt , however , was much less committed
attack of enteric fever .
the date of birth of each child , as had been done
been married . It was not regarded as practicable within
except that they extended to all women who were or had
in the specialised enquiry for the Royal Commission .
the limits of the census to include particulars about
The questions about children were the same as in 1951 ,
went dead again , and Steve had no stomach for
should be . Steve got out the car and traversed the
in Sussex , in all its obscene details . Then the radio
After what seemed an undue period of repetition , the voice
to keep an appointment with Heather .