... Speaking u -m. Dean ties by FRANCIS BUTTERFIELD WE keep pets for many reasons, but the most compelling one is that we want company. Too often we forget that the pets, too, want company. i he budgerigar, that busy and charming character, is one ot the ...

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... Prospective Labour Member of Parliament. Are you frightened I said to the more assured of the two. Not in the least, he said. Speaking in public is Second Nature to me. Come on, come on cried the Question Master. It 's time we began, and like a kindly sheep-dog ...

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... This Guide Book Speaks Clearly Oliver Stewart IN common with hundreds of other motorists who are going to France this year, I have been poring over that extraordinary guide book, Michelin. I know of no other guide book which has earned the confidence ...

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... Speaking as a Scot abroad by IVOR BROWN THE BEST SIGN of affection for a country is that you stay in it or, if you can't stay, that you return as often as you can. Nothing is proved by dressing up and shouting. I have an American friend, with only one ...

... at Dingley Dell, with Sam Weller waiting to display that beautiful feat of fancy sliding knocking at the cobbler's door.' SPEAK TO THE WIND never bother to meet that day. They know never a fox this side of the country but goes to the funeral. That's ...