Animal crackers
Sir: May I be permitted to offer my warm thanks to Mr Kenneth Allsop for his wholly delightful article in last week's SPECTATOR (19 January), which came as an oasis of pleasure in an arid desert of political speculation with which most papers seem alike to have been filled.
If it sounded like a cri de coettr (evoked, no doubt, as much by ever-rising feeding and vet bills as by the incorrigible 'Keith and Prowse' attitude of mind of most domestic pets) one suspects, despite his apparent despair, that Mr Allsop, like his fellow sufferers in this field, does contrive to find some compensation in the diversions which his large family must provide.
One hopes he will find some way of controlling excessive fecundity. If not, his only hope would appear to be a comfortable bunk in the garage or,
possibly, the chartering of a 'Gipsy Moth IV' or a 'Lively Lady' for an expedition in search of an animal-free island. As a would-be escaper from a similar miscellaneous army of donkeys, sheep, peafowl, pheasants, budgerigars, doves, bantams, rabbits, cats and dogs, I sometimes think I would gladly join your correspondent in such an enterprise.
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