| From Me, HAPPY THOUGHT HALL, HERTFORDSHIRE. | Messrs. POPGOOD & GROOLLY, THE WORKS, BOOKMAKERS' WALK, FINSBURY, E.C. |
Good notion for you. Sunday book. Nothing solemn. Lightly contemplative. Will you? Wire back.
Forgot it's Sunday, and no telegrams can be sent. Very absurd. Why shouldn't one want to send a telegram on Sunday equally as much as on Monday? Telegraphic people might arrange for holidays easily enough, by having small extra Sunday staff.
Happy Thought.—Will commence my Meditations. Head them Sunday Sayings. No, they're not sayings. Prefer alliterative title. Try Sunday Sighs. But they're not sighs. Try another, Sunday Sermons. No, they won't be sermons. Put down a lot of titles and see which I like. Sunday Songs. Sobs for Sunday. Sunday Solids. (This is something more like it.) Or a double title. Sunday Solids and Sunday Suctions. No; won't do.
Happy Thought.—Write the meditations first, see what they come out like, and then give them a name. This will, so to speak, “suit my book,” as to-morrow, with a name and everything cut and dried, I can write particulars to Popgood and Groolly.
For the nonce—(good word, by the way, “the nonce”)—only it's always given me the idea of sounding like a vague part of the body, where one could be hit or knocked down. I mean it would never surprise me to hear that some one had met a man and hit him on the nonce. Result fatal.
“He was not found for some days after, but there is no doubt that he was killed by a blow on the nonce.”
Extract from local paper.
To resume:—
For the nonce, I will head them merely for my own personal information, “Sayings for Sunday.”
Happy Thought.—Good Hebdomadal Alliterative Series.