Number in series 21; Year of publication 1927 - Fell and Rock ...

INTERVIEWS WITH CLUB CELEBRITIES. 357for an armful for my rock garden later in the day, but it provedimpossible."But the worst was yet to come. The strong man's voicequivered with emotion as he told me how, when running downLangdale, he had flushed a little beyond the ninth house on theleft a perfect specimen—male—of the Painted Lady (VanessaPolychloros), how he and two of his helpers had chased it oversix fields and across the stream, how when it stood at bay nearthe wall of the powder-factory, " I threw my jacket over it.On lifting up the jacket very carefully I found it was not there."I felt that the time had come to go. A man can only standso much. Even to please Mrs. Chorley I could not walk anotherround. As we passed the rock garden once more I gasped outmy thanks to my victim and said good-bye. Turning out ofthe drive I looked back and saw that he was still walking roundand round. As Gilbert might have written in the " Mikado'sSong "—The fellow who walks and never gets tiredHis doom's extremely hard,I've invented a scheme by which he will dreamThat he's lost in his own backyard.