" The vast importation of tortoises finds the public, generally,
uninformed as to how they should be treated." This pleasing and dignified sentence, which I quote from the Oban Times, was followed by the statement that guidance in the matter could be obtained from the Canine Defence League in London. An official at the League's headquarters in Clifford Street confirmed this. It seems that this is the time of year when tortoises are imported in their thousands from Greece and elsewhere. Asked if the League had any other non-canine protégés, he said No, adding, " We took on tortoises because nobody else was doing anything about them." In an age so prone to pass the buck these words combined with the stately periods of the Oban Times to produce for a moment the atmosphere of an earlier less asperous, epoch,
STRIX.
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