"L've brought you down here to enjoy. yourself. and enjoy yourself you shall" says the harassed mother of a family to her squalling brat in Mr. Noel Coward's This Grace". That is the stout spirit in which the British public faces its diMeuities of celebrating 'August Bank holiday with a hostile lark of the weather. As already explained this has been an all. too ypleal English summer. It has ed havoc with the county cricket clubs' balance sheets even though it Appears to have given the championship struggle an exceptionally. thru aspect, so that the time-honoured game between Notts and Surrey at the Oval will not only settle an issue in. which' the' venerable gasometer, fakes a personal interest "but may algo have an important bearing on the eventual allocate honours.
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