Englishman in Exile
Sta,—May I ask you to record my appreciative grin at Mr. J. B. Broad- bent's contribution, Englishman in Exile ? I have read all the Under- graduate Pages and, confess to a little astonishment at their continued seriousness. Although it has taken a Sassenazh in Edinburgh to do it, Mr. Broadbent deserves gratitude for restoring one's belief in student glim. Tt
I chuckled over his comparison of our houses to coffins and Pharaohs' tombs. It took me quite a few years of living abroad in the wide open spaces to realise how cluttered and stuffy are many Scottish homes. That fault is a survival. Not so, by any means, but a comparatively new line, is the lack of a drink and a place wherein to swallow it. If Mr. Broad- bent would not object to converse with a grandmother, I invite him to elevenses in my bare, airy living-room where, over his desired tankard of beer, we might get into a companionable huddle re the reason why, in these taxing times, the thieving of stones is much more a la mode than the stoning of thieves.—Yours faithfully, ISABELLA MCRAE. Daramona, Barnton, Edinburgh.
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