Junior leaders

I should not have been surprised to discover that The Spectator has a profound influence on village life — a happy state of affairs which was illustrated last Friday evening immediately before the start of our junior fell races.

I should not have been surprised to discover that The Spectator has a profound influence on village life — a happy state of affairs which was illustrated last Friday evening immediately before the start of our junior fell races. As the young contestants were lining up, I was handed a box and a sealed envelope. The box contained a revolver and inside the envelope there was a note about how the weapon should be employed. George V once suggested that a similar gift be made to officers of the household division, whose pleasures he regarded as deviant. Happily, the letter which was addressed to me did not suggest that I go into the garden and blow my brains out.