FROM THE POND
The long-resident frog held his annual midsummer gathering at the southern waters on Saturday evening, modest as promised. The gazette watched from the customary respectful distance and files what a respectful distance allowed.
FROM THE POND
The Deputy of the Warden of the Sluice has a photograph of the sluice wall marking, by means no one can account for. The reproduction being beyond this paper's present technology, the photograph is described here as closely as words allow.
DISPATCHES
The Cultural Subcommittee meets in special session to consider an autumn programme. It considers it, and then, in the manner the gazette has come to expect, defers it.
DISPATCHES
The first Wednesday session since the agenda was suspended for the midsummer programme. The Junior Member wants to know who runs the Channel Sprint if the Clerk of the Race never comes back.
LETTERS
Tuesday's postbag, the first opened since Sunday's programme beneath the Old Willow, runs heavily to the evening itself. The editor reproduces four letters, two brief and two less so, in the order they reached the reeds.
FROM THE POND
Monday at the southern waters in the unhurried condition of the morning after Sunday's programme; a second frog, smaller, of no particular acquaintance, observed in the long-resident frog's company at the customary station.
FEATURES
Four items beneath the Old Willow at the late twilight, before the largest audience of this gazette's recording history. The duet, long reported as a question of audibility, became on the night a different question, and this critic does not propose to answer it tonight.