Chapter 11

Dislike of the elderly to change--Some legitimate grounds of complaint--Modern pronunciation of Latin--How a European crisis was averted by the old-fashioned method--Lord Dufferin's Latin speech--Schoolboy costume of a hundred years ago--Discomforts of travel in my youth--A crack liner of the 'eighties--Old travelling carriages--An election incident--Headlong rush of extraordinary turn-out--The politically-minded signalman and the doubtful voter--"Decent bodies"--Confidence in the future--Conclusion

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HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE