Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
A Roadside Snapping
Turtle in April
If you’d spent the winter
Sleeping deep down in the mud
You’d be snappish too!
The former address, "reactionary drivel," was a P. G. Wodehouse gag that few ever understood to be a mildly self-deprecating joke. Drivel, perhaps, but not reactionary. Neither the Red Caps nor the Reds ever got it.
Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
A Roadside Snapping
Turtle in April
If you’d spent the winter
Sleeping deep down in the mud
You’d be snappish too!