BURNS--who has stuck loyally to Council--fiercely denounced
as a "blackleg" by crowd. Amusing at any other time. Home in evening
dead tired, under police escort. Find all my front windows smashed!
After all--_was_ it wise to abolish the Contractor?
_Saturday_.--Whole County Council, protected by several regiments from
Aldershot, a park of Artillery, and all the City Police (Council's
own Police being out on strike, in sympathy with bricklayers), manage
with great difficulty to fill ten carts with rubbish, and then adjourn
to Spring Gardens. Refreshments and free sticking-plaster handed
round before Meeting takes place. Meeting unanimously decides to
re-establish old Middleman system! Sir JOHN LUBBOCK humorously
suggests that it is, at any rate, better than the "muddle-man" system
which we have tried and found wanting. Bonus of L5,000 out of rates,
enthusiastically voted to any Contractor who will tender for job of
clearing snow and widening Strand.
_Later_.--High Court disallows our "precept" for the L5,000
bonus--says we must pay it out of our own pockets!
Wish I had never stood for London County Council!
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ROBERT'S COMPANIONS. NO. 2.
Another of our speshal lot is good old SAM, with his wunderfool
memmery. He won't tell not nobody his age.
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