be accurate) the British, are the most to and

    fro-ward people in the world; like the bear in the fable when they are tired of going

     to and fro

    they reverse the process and go

     fro and to

    .

     With Bibles and Bathtubs

     And Ballots and Beer

     And Hope and Hygienics

     They girdle the Sphere.

    In every quarter of the globe they have planted seeds of self-government which today are blossoming into an English-Speaking Union under the British and American Flags that embrace one-fourth of the surface of the earth.

    The climate of England is temperate. Its air is not, like that of the United States, compared to champagne.

    London, the capital, is famous for its fogs; this is due to the absence of Sky-Scrapers.

    London is also the centre of that vicious heritage of the Victorian Era, Respectability.

    For any enjoyable degree of latitude, the Londoner must go to Paris, Vienna or Buda Pesth and other capitals, which in return take

    their degrees of longitude from London (or Greenwich).

    This picture shows the famous Rock of Gibraltar, inscribed with the French motto of British respectability (

     Honi soit qui mal y pense

    ) done into English.

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