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he has already had a birthday-present, he shall have a copy of The Tour'' the moment it arrives. Good luck to him!''

P. S. Absolutely a good notice of The Tour in the Sunday Times''. My wife says that the critic must have been drunk.''

Monday, 28 February.

Arrival of a terrible Yorkshire group, two men and a woman They foregather with a man who appears in carpet-slippers, like Kipps, and talk of nothing but food, in broad Leeds.

Tuesday, 1 March.

 "Ah had hum-und-eggs to my breakfast this morning. Ah was always partial to hum-und-eggs for breakfast Ah had new potai-i-toes ut the dinner. Ah said to McKanner, 'These are too good to pass.' We had summon with 'em, summon und new potai-i-itoes."

They seem to be bank-managers and to have dined with Reggie at some London City and Midland Bank-wet

Thursday, 3 March.

''T. takes me to East Dene, the childhood home of Swinburne, now a convent of the Sacred Heart.''