The Archive · 1939

A Bit of Good Cheer

HMavinc returned from the country, where I was able to snatch a few pure, idealistic hours, I feel strongly, with Mr. Basil Boofuls, how we can all share in everything, and we will, writes Showman in the "Daily Herald."

Nature is all there for the taking, with its beauty rich and strange; its idyllic walks; its trees and rocks on which others have left charming records of their passage in the form of carved hearts intertwined, initials, dates, and such human phrases as "Tom is a fool" and "Cissy loves Ted."

"Thus I mused, overlooking a simple stream that sang its simple way to the simple sea. And there, below me, in the limpid water—simple evidence of the bond which unites us all—was a prize collection of old jam-tins, discarded shoes, sodden cardboard, and household dregs Civilisation's tribute to Nature.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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