The Right Reverend Rector, Charles Tucker Eland.
The Right Reverend Reverend Rector’s good lady.
(County Council, two votes by appointment.)
The Right Reverend Rector’s friend, the Right Reverend Rector of Shimpling, Reverend Charles Millard.
The Right Reverend Charles Tucker Eland’s glebe tenant, Farmer Fisher.
The Right Reverend Rector’s friend’s friend, the Rector of Shimpling’s churchwarden, Farmer Stearn, and lastly, beloved, Mr. Harry Witherly.
A fitting finale to this family party—I mean Council School Managing Committee—was provided by the Right Reverend Charles Tucker Eland’s loyal glebe tenant, Farmer Fisher, who remarked upon “the harm which had been done to the parish by closing the school.”
Had Farmer Fisher been a medico one might have sympathised with him in his sorrow at “whooping cough” not being allowed to attend school whilst the rector was in Switzerland, but as Mr. Fisher is not a medical gentleman by profession one is forced to the sad conclusion that though he may put money in his purse he really ought to have more furniture in his attic.
His theory for the elimination of disease is certainly original.
Children who may suffer in the future from mumps, whooping cough, scarlet fever, managers, or any other disease liable to be captured by juveniles, may say to their parents, “Please don’t keep me at home. Please mother, Mr. Fisher recommends Council School treatment, so that I may share it with the others.”