Britain's first moving pavement, the 104-yds.-long Travolater linking the Waterloo & City Tube station with the L.T. concourse at the Bank, London, was brought into use on September 27.

Then I got to the beasts — the foumart, the cur fox, the baboon, the Chillingham bull — and suddenly, gazing at a handsome illustration of a lion, I remembered, as a child, pulling down an impossibly heavy old leatherbound book of fables, full of magical drawings of wolves and crows and bears, intense in their detail while managing to leave much to the imagination.

He uses a squirrel-proof bird bath.

For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledg'd or unsent.