ROCK FOR MR. LLOYD GEORGE
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] ..7-Janus' paragraph, headed " Rock for Mr. Lloyd
George " greatly interested me, fez I an:: enough to remember the 'sixties, but my experience does not enable me to agree with Janus that the rock was probably " a big brick-bat." It was much more probably " what the Americans call candy."
I remember in country fairs the controllers of shooting discs used to call out Nuts or jibber." This latter word puzzled me for many years, but I discovered afterwards it was a contraction for Gibraltar rock, which at that time of day was about the only rock or candy known, but as the rock makers have discovered an ingenious method of incor- porating the town in the material of the rock itself in a different coloured candy (or boiled sugar), there are a very few towns which are the resorts of pleasure seekers which have not a rock of their own, and that no doubt explains the nature of " Llanerchymedd " rock.
I had much rather believe that it was candy than a chunk of old red sandstone—at all events, the candy is more
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