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they feel that if they increase their education they will stand a better chance of competing for a job. This business flourished for a few years, and though the salaries for staff left much to be desired it was said that the proprietor soon became a millionaire. He found it difficult to understand why employees needed money. Too late we learnt that, had we waited a little longer, other opportunities would have presented themselves and a much more satisfactory offer would have come our way. If people in general only had the gift of pre-vision, how much more satisfactory their lives might be. Or would they? It seems so easy to take the wrong path. Summer was a much pleasanter time to spend in the vicinity because one could rent a dinghy and go rowing on the River Wey. This we would be doing after a wait of six or seven months because we had arrived in one of the worst periods, in dull November. We were going to miss the walks in the parks, in Green Park and Kensington Gardens, where we loved to go during the weekends. Carl found museums fascinating, especially the science museum at South Kensington; and I enjoyed Madame Tussaud's waxworks exhibition, also going out to a restaurant occasionally in the evening for dinner. One of our favorite places was the Empire Restaurant, in Victoria Street, which we sometimes visited after Carl left the office . . . and I sometimes wondered whether this was arranged mainly for my benefit. I knew he liked to spend some time in a News Theatre, so I would suggest it after dinner, before we returned home. Our nearest neighbor in Weybridge was a gardener who lived in a cottage with his wife, and who used to grow many vegetables for himself and his ‘customers’. It must have been quite legal and above-board, but he didn't seem happy to have neighbors (us) around who were in a position to observe his varied activities. Life moved along fairly smoothly except for a mild complaint, about a cat scratching around the vegetable and flower beds, and he was concerned as to whether it was our feline. 22
We were awakened one morning in the early hours by a loud knocking on the door, and an agitated voice accompanying the knocking. On investigating we found the gardener's wife in a very nervous state and wearing only her night attire. She be- seeched me to go with her since she thought her husband was dying, and would I go and see what I thought about his con- dition. She was obviously in a very distressed state so I had to do something, although she and her husband had shown nothing but resentment towards us. I threw on a robe and accom- panied her back to her cottage where I crossed the threshold for the first time, when she ushered me to where her husband lay. For a moment I stood looking at him; I saw it was too late and there was nothing one could do to save him, for his spirit had indeed departed. She looked up at me, at last realizing the worst, and I consoled her as best I could while she gradually recovered her self-control and made arrangements to contact her doctor and her relatives. It must be one of the saddest situations when one partner is suddenly taken away, most people seem to know not where, and the other is left to face life alone. In this particular case, the clothes-line in the back garden was left in position for a long time, when normally it would have been removed immediately the washing was dry; left because it was one of the last duties the gardener had per- formed and his wife did not feel able to have it removed since it helped her to maintain contact with him. I have often wondered why we are not educated more about the process of dying; why we are not told how it is a natural process, and that it is not the end. The majority of today's youth seem to have very little idea of what death is all about, and how can they know if there is no one to teach them? JUST A SKETCH The pavement was cold and hard as his body thudded down those twenty floors to finally rest on the sidewalk where passers-by might gaze with curiosity as he lay quite still, in the chill wind of winter. 23
Page 2 and 3: The Pen is Mightier than the sword
Page 4 and 5: one had to do. But what I really li
Page 6 and 7: I looked for my soul but my soul I
Page 8 and 9: you two should come together. Satur
Page 10 and 11: CHAPTER THREE It was interesting th
Page 12 and 13: following morning; so it was fortun
Page 14 and 15: If I accept the snnshine and warmth
Page 18 and 19: One wonders whether he was born wit
Page 20 and 21: CHAPTER FIVE Weybridge was a busy p
Page 22 and 23: its hate and misunderstanding, and
Page 24 and 25: In the midst of winter, I finally l
Page 26 and 27: have heard the remark, ‘I feel cl
Page 28 and 29: Many aspects of the whole affair we
Page 30 and 31: I do my thing And you do your thing
Page 32 and 33: mass, thus allowing it to complete
Page 34 and 35: may be absorbed, thus providing the
Page 36 and 37: Friendship is the inexpressible com
Page 38 and 39: from me. Lobsang Rampa has a harder
Page 40 and 41: write, there is a highly intelligen
Page 42 and 43: CHAPTER NINE Ships that Pass . . .
Page 44 and 45: happy moment the day an elderly man
Page 46 and 47: We are told we should not worry so
Page 48 and 49: CHAPTER TEN Since this narrative se
Page 50 and 51: ‘passed this way’ more than onc
Page 52 and 53: young he fell from the same outside
Page 54 and 55: CHAPTER ELEVEN There was one import
Page 56 and 57: always easy to see what other peopl
Page 58 and 59: earth ahead of their time, are rese
Page 60 and 61: CHAPTER TWELVE We must remember tha
Page 62 and 63: walls, that is, there was a tunnel
Page 64 and 65: number of men in his service, these
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INTERLUDE Have you ever noticed how
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old, members of her family, neither
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seemed imminent. If my complete fai
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So after a pleasant interlude along
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN Our interlude over
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way than in his natural state. Whil
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I think that I will never see A Bil
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pation when he was first allowed to
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such a luxury even when the tempera
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Write without pay until somebody of
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have us as tenants, even going to t
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opportunity to save at all, but one
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CHAPTER SIX TEEN Thames Ditton must
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een slightly deaf because he used t
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If you don't know what you are look
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the pipes, and if we let through an
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him, she came trotting up the corri
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Taddy growls and hisses and puts on
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Soon breakfast was
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entertainment time when they race a
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cat food or the dog food, that alon
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some fish, it will have a craving f
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God grant me SERENITY to accept the
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to have only one Siamese cat—two
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When someone cares It is easier to
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ment, then let it be on themselves.
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Many people are not at all sure whe
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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Now, you cat peo
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Unlike some people who, if on one o
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What made us friends in the long ag
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some kind. Dr. Dee was a very outsp
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Caption Says, ‘I WOULD VERY MUCH
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with a further comment, ‘You know
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Hold fast to dreams For if dreams d
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Lives will almost outweigh the inte
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now Canadian citizens—Her Graciou
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