When I got home I found a letter from the Local Government Board, referring me on the trout-fishing point to the words of the Act, to which accordingly I at once turned. Then I saw that the clause was "to utilize any ... stream within their parish ... but so as not to interfere with the rights of any corporation or person...." I had stopped short before at these last words. I understand at last why Mrs. Arble March winked—for wink I now know she did.
AND IF HE DOES——?
Sportsman (who has given a mount to a Nervous Friend). "Let her head go! Let her go, Man! She'll be a regular Wild Cat if you don't!"
"THE JUDGMENT OF 'PARISH.'"
(A very long way after the late Laureate's Version.)
[On December 4, every rural parish will, for the first time, "assemble for the purpose of managing, in some organised and systematic way, its own affairs."—Daily News.
"He invited them to choose men, and women too, who they believed would manage their parish affairs best.... If the leading landowner desired to have a large influence in parish affairs, and if he were a fit man, by all means give him the power; but if he was not a fit man, put in the agricultural labourer." (Laughter and cheers.)—Lord Ripon at Newbury.]
Spirit of the Good Old Times lamenteth:—