1. 'I don't mind the trouble so much, though that was bad enough; but what I resent is this showing up in print. It wll stick to me like a burr all thorugh my service... It's too bad of you ...

'I don't know ... have you ever been stuck with a horse ?'

2. 'You hit hard ... His own people think he's mad.'

'You don't say so ? I'll show you some of his letters tonight at dinner.

3. '...Look at her from here and tell us how many spots you count now'.

'None ... They're all gone. My God ! Everything's gone !'.

'Quite right ... here's .. your own kind Dr Frole to see you safe home.'

1. (......The orator urged us to arise in our might, burst our prison doors and break our fetters...) This is from "As Easy as ABC" in A Diversity of Creatures.

2. (...'I'm a sister to all in affliction - just a working sister. My heart bled for you beneath your burden…) This is from "The Mother Hive" in Actions and Reactions

3. (...The power is yourn. Without you, I say, man the Oppressor cannot mnove himself form place to place. Without you he cannot reap, he cannot sow, he cannot plough…') This is from "A Walking Delegate" in The Day's Work.

In the New Readers' Guide we habe just published notes by John McGivering on "With Number Three", another little-known 'unpublished' story, a powerful account of a hospital train in the South African War.