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Here are the quotations for next week (March 5th to 11th): 1. 'Have it as you've a mind to,' he was saying, 'but the vivers of her roots they hold the bank together. If you grub her out, the bank she'll all come tearing down, an' next floods the brook'll all swarve up. But have it as you've a mind...' 2. '...The brook she'd crep' up on us, an' she kep' creepin' upon us till we was workin' knee deep in the shallers, cuttin' an' pookin' an pullin' what we could get to o' the rubbbish. There was a middlin' lot comin' down-stream, too - cattle-bars an' hop-poles and odds-end bats, all poltin' down together...' 3. ...'Twas hot an' windy for weeks, an' the streets stinkin' o' dried 'orse-dung blowin' from side to side an' lyin' level with the kerb. We don't get that nowadays. I 'ad my 'ol'day just before hoppin', an' come down 'ere to stay with Bessie again. She noticed I'd lost flesh, an' was all poochy under the eyes.'... The sources of this week’s extracts (Feb 26 to March 4th) are as follows: 1.(…By this time the village was old in experience of war, and, English fashion, had evolved a ritual to meet it…) This is from "The Gardener" in Debits and Credits. 2.(“…you’re in the three-mile radius, sir. The boy delivers telegrams directly to this door from Pardons village.”) This is from "An Habitation Enforced" in Actions and Reactions. 3. (…He pulled out his copy, with the cable forms - for he had written out his telegram - and put them all into my hand, groaning,…) This is from "A Matter of Fact" in Many Inventions. Good wishes to all John R