Spectator seized
Apart from these shocks there was even more disturbing news for Puzzle. One member, Mr Patrick Duffy, informed the House that in the fine watering retreat of Bath the police had recently raided a newspaper shop and seized copies of The Spectator. What in God's name had Master Cosgrave been up to in some dead language? Had Mis. tress Juliette's modesty deserted her in the equestrian world?
Alas we shall never know, for the peelers also seized the Angling Times, the Bookseller. the Railway Modeller, and Dalton's Weekly. It was indeed a curious, confused debate full of hair-raising accounts of strange adventures which shocked and astonished Puzzle, much as he enjoys the company of the bawdiest of wenches.
What could Puzzle make of Master Edward Gardner who confessed that, whilst a member of a committee examining obscenity, and the like, he had taken himself to a cinema to see a Swedish film which was a "moving medical aictionary "?At half-time there was an interval for the sale of ice cream, without which such manifestations are not apparently complete, and the intrepid searcher after sociolOgical information peerel over the shoulders •of twd men sitting in front ofihim to observe,thati they were reading a •pornographic migazifie, which was apparently immediately obviousi;
The good Edward Gardner added:
I thought that that was about the best illustration and the best experience that I had ever had to satisfy me of the voracious appetite of some peoPle for obscene material.
Such good and worthy men should not be let out after 10 pm of an evening when the bawds are abroad, and much claret imbibed.
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