It should be rather a long job.
'Ave you fetched down many Zepperleans this morning?"
U.A.
It is very odd how suddenly and completely a new idea gets about. Yesterday you had never heard of it, or not in any way to take notice of it; to-day you hear about it consciously for the first time, and to-morrow it is a commonplace of conversation.
It is so with U.A.
I had, of course, heard of U.A. as a menace, a hidden terror, the old man's dread, the bon vivant's heritage, and so forth. But only vaguely. No one had talked about it; I had seen the words in advertisements and had forgotten them again. I had never associated myself with them. Whatever might happen to me, U.A. would be unrepresented.