EDITORIAL
The Travelling Drake is back. The crust index stands at twelve. For the second time in its history, this paper deploys the formula by which it commits itself, and commits itself accordingly.
EDITORIAL
The crust index at the East Bank feeding point has reached twelve to the hour, past the spring peak. And in the same edition, a second sighting of the upper-bend lights, filed as a miscellaneous observation.
FROM THE POND
A short watch kept on the Deputy of the Warden of the Sluice at the lower gate. She is at a small daily inspection, the Warden is nowhere about, and the office, on the morning's evidence, looks to be hers.
DISPATCHES
The Wednesday session takes up the lights at the upper bend. The matter is deferred. The Cultural Subcommittee confirms it has scheduled nothing out that way, and the Junior Member's call for an independent look earns the Clerk's familiar demurral.
DISPATCHES
Drake Halford has lodged a sixth filing on the question of his household's classification. It runs to three leaves and takes on, at last, the complexity that has shadowed the matter since the spring.
FROM THE POND
A short Monday from the southern waters. The long-resident frog at his station, the younger frog nowhere about, the pondweed thicker by what your correspondent will, with some hesitation, call a margin.
FROM THE POND
Sunday on the south bank, and the older drakes turn the upper-bend lights over among themselves, inaudibly, at their station. Your correspondent infers a verdict of no verdict, and lets a leaf carry the morning out.