12 SEPTEMBER 1968, Page 27

The operation

Sir: You say it is twenty years since Harold Acton wrote a short story (23 August).

Let's hope it is twenty years before he writes another.

We don't like gutter press writing.

John Harvey Paignton, Devon Sir: 'The Operation' certainly put me off my breakfast—not because I found it disgusting or obscene, but because I was chuckling so much.

`Chacun a son goat.' F. Murdoch 139 Brownside Road, Cambuslang, Glasgow