Rustic Crimes Now that the countryside is served daily with
all manner of foodstuffs peddled from motor-vans (vehicles ranging from ancient Baby-Austins to chromium-plated and streamlined mobile kiosks) a reminder needs to be given to careless customers, too many of *horn buy their ice-cream tubs, their gateaux, fish-and-chips and other cooked delights, only to devour them on the spot and throw the containers by the wayside. Against these garish cartons and cellophanes A primrose by the river's brim Is made to look so very dim.
This wanton thoughtlessness and insensitivity makes one throw off all one's resolutions to think and try to practise neighbourliness. One begins to murmur of capital punishment, or at least a touch of the bastinado, for these barbarians to whom virgin beauty is something instantly to be raped. But such reactions are disgracefully undemocratic!
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