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...done was done. The Prince caught the night express to London, apparently none the worse for his spill. Encore. A day later Wales hunted in the Melton Mowbray country, this time with the famed Fernie hounds. With the pack at full cry, a very nasty hedge with a ditch on either side had to be taken. Lord Stalbridge, Master of the hunt, rode at the hazard, but suddenly pulled up as his horse showed signs of refusing to take the jump. Not so Edward of Wales. He crouched low, urged his mount to clear the first ditch and the hedge?...
...certain extent joined hands. This gives the Labor Party a unity of force which the Conservatives, holding aloof from all the huge class of manual workers can never attain. In England, however, not every laborer is a manual worker. British labor showed its superiority to a class of ditch-diggers and stevedores by gaining for itself the support of educated people. The days of the Conservative Party are numbered unless it can bring about some fusion with the working orders...
Suddenly the road turned, but not the Baldwin motor-it skidded. In a flash between split seconds several near-tragedies became comic. The Baldwin car knocked a farmer's cart, complete with horse and farmer, into the ditch. A car which thundered behind, anonymously piloted, skidded likewise but slued by, missing the assorted debris by inches. As ever, Mr. Baldwin rose to the occasion, imperturbable, good-natured. First he made sure that none of the human beings concerned had been hurt. Then he assisted in quieting the slightly bruised and badly frightened horse; helped to get both horse...
Once his automobile was wrecked. Singlehanded, to the terror of the trembling gas-hawk who had run into him, he tossed his own car out of a ditch...
...hayfield," always sniffing and listening around metaphysical corners for God. John Cowper Powys now and again casts his sterile chill. And there are other Powyses?a wisp of a mother, a "lovely seagull" sister, a rustic brother who dwells in "the divine oblivion of cider and ditch-digging, of making bulls leap cows, and bringing foals into the world...