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CHAPTER XX.
"PADDING" AND "SCISSORS AND PASTE."
Personal.The " Times" Newspaper.Changes in English manners and customs.The "Hunt Sermon."Mr. Gladstone and newspapers.Deeds and legal documents.A dog and cat story.A Sabbath-breaking dog. Debating Societies.Practical v. unpractical Temperance Reform.English and Welsh.The Economy of Time.Tick, Tick, Tick.A Waterloo Myth. A Waterloo Fact.Visits to the Battle-field of Waterloo.Unfamiliar Women's Christian Names.Novel experiences, exciting or otherwise. Mid-Victorian Meal-times.Visits to the Galleries of the Two Houses of Parliament.A Gladstone Anecdote.Coins as Measures.The Duty and Advantages of showing Civility to Strangers. Clerical Surnames.An Offer of Marriage: 1802 style.
" $£tto customs, tljouglr i^qr be xxeber so ribirulous, xxixxr let
iJfjjcm be unmaitlg, get ar* follofojeo." {King Henry VIII)
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CLOSE this volume with some material which, in the language of the literary man, is known as "Padding" and " Scissors-and-Paste." "Padding" is material put in to thicken a book and make the reader think he is getting good value for his money, at ]east in quantity if not in quality, whilst " Scissors-and-Paste " tells its own tale. In the domain of the shipping world, none of it would be rated as Al.
Personal.
My East-Bourne grandmother, Mrs. Brodie, was a daughter of the first John Walter of The Times, who founded that paper, and as, at his death in 1812, it was not a very prosperous concern, he left his daughters and his butler, inter alia, shares in it. My grandmother's share was Teths. This at her death was sub-divided,, and one of the sub-divisions eventually came to me, so I was the holder of £ of fVthsa very uncomfortable way of cataloguing one's invested property. But there were smaller sub-divisions than this. Several of my cousins |
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