18 NOVEMBER 1955, page 27

Miss Trotter Eats Her Ox

'Indeed [Miss Trotter] generally sacri- ficed an ox to hospitality every autumn, which, according to a system of her own, she ate regularly from nose to tail; and as she......

Plaques For Britain

BY RAYMOND POSTOATE T HE simplest, if not always the ideal, way of travelling on the Continent is to drive by plaques. In France, especially, I used to go slowly down the......