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CHAPTER XIIIINCIDENTS AND PREDICAMENTSALL the towns that we passed through are classifiedin my diary under four headings.Class Ais a small and distinguished group made up of thevery pick of the basket, of such places as I holdto be laid out with elegance and efficiency and tooccupy by nature a perfect situation.There aredozens of jolly places in Class B. Class C isbyno means so attractive, but it is a small class.Finally Class D is reserved for such places as wefelt we had good reason to resent, where thingsturned against us in one way or another. We hada bad time in Crieff . There we wasted the greaterpart of a hot and dusty afternoon trying to getthe van weighed on a weigh-bridge that was twoinches too short. We were not lucky in ourshopping, and I forgot to post the letters. Crieffisperhaps not to blame for that ;but it isassuredly to blame for possessing a central squareso outrageously tilted up on edgemost dangerous corner in the busiest part of theH 97as to make a