juggings of hares or of partridges

The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].

At first a performer, then a conductor in the musical theatre, Bratton later moved into the production of dollar circuit touring plays and musical comedies (The Dingbat Family, The Newlyweds and Their Baby, Let George Do It, etc), in partnership with Johnny Leffler, whilst also composing more than a decadeful of songs, which were used both as decoration for his own productions and, interpolated into musical comedies on both sides of the Atlantic, in those of others.

To one side, the remaining meat-wagon was operating its mechanical scoop and shovelling the bits and pieces of the Tittering into the refrigerated interior of the morgue vehicle.