27 FEBRUARY 1915, Page 13

ESSEX WAYS.

[To SHE ED1708 OF 7118 ..SPEC T170."] was walking yesterday on a remote country road. I came across a fine young man scraping the mud off. I asked how much a week he got for his job. He said " Seventeen shillings." I asked him why he did not enlist. " Plenty more besides me ain't gone yet," he answered. This on a byway seven miles from a railway station (Braintree), where the Germane dropped two bombs last Sunday, Prodigious ! as Dominic Sampson observed.—I am, Sir, &c.,