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224 CARAVAN DAYSBut then, if the morrow is a good dayit willThere will be no lookinginaugurate a new cycle.back. The fish will not, after all, taste of methylatedspirit. You will find enough milk in theblue jug. As you empty the bath out of thewindow itwill quite gratuitously put out a risingconflagration where some one had set fire to theold newspapers and might have set fire to the van.At breakfast ifyou happen to drop a plate offthe table it will not break but it will kill a wasp.As the day goes on itinerant butchers and bakerswill minister to you in the nick of time. A preternaturallyintelligent postman will pursue you ona bicycle with the lost letters. By taking a wrongturning you are brought at once to the mostperfect camp of the whole tour, in a shelteredmeadow by a winding stream, with a spring ofpure water welling up within ten yards. One ofthe lamps of the stove goes out, while you areneglecting it,and thereby saves the sirloin frombeing grossly overdone.And late at night a sudden heavy showerextinguishes the gramophone of the party thatiscamped on the other side of the hedge.