First Published 1938 Published in Penguin Boks 1945
Dedicated to W. D. H. McCULLOUGH
I have mentioned this sort of a yard to you once or twice and you expressed a hope that I would write it, or something like it, one day. You must understand that it is not Art or Literature or anything like that; but I hope you will enjoy it, althought it may, of course, move yu to repeat the opening lines of an immortal poem by J. B. Morton: the one that begins “Come gentle tripe . . .”
Made and Printed in Great Britain for Penguin Books Ltd, by Hazell, Watson and Viney, Ltd., London and Aylesbury.