The ever topical Lord Mayor's Show, about which Londoners grumble every November but turn out in their thousands to watch, gives pride of place this year to a pageant of sport illustrating "Keeping Fit Through the Ages." It is to be regretted that the method of keeping fit adopted by the retiring Lord Mayor finds no place in this pageant, Throughout his year of office this giver of banquets, so he tells us, has touched his toes 20 times every morning before breakfast, an achievement which must be without precedent in London's civic history! Furthermore, Sir Harry Twyford wants to make to be used was not quite clear, and from a perusal of these old manuscripts it would appear that the inventers were not unaffected by moral scruples as to the "lawfulness" of this new weapon. Mankind has pro-grossed considerably since those days. The animal protection societies would object if we attempted to exploit mad dogs.
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