25 MAY 1929, Page 21

POINTS FROM LETTERS "CUT THE CACKLE AND GET TO THE

'OSSES.."

Can any of your readers say where this admirable motto, so appropriately quoted by Mr. Baldwin the other day, is to be found ?—H. M. W.

[Surely this is a dictum of the immortal Mr. Jorrocks, though in which of Mr. Surtees' books it occurs we cannot remember.—En. Spectator.]