FROM THE POND
The correspondent travels, for the first time in the gazette's history, to the upper bend; she interviews the fishing party of mallards at their station, observes the long-resident frog present on his own errand, and reports no lights on the night of observation.
DISPATCHES
Drake Halford has lodged a seventh census filing, occasioned by the week's correspondence; the filing carries, in supplementary form, an arithmetic of crust consumption; the Clerk files it under Items of Continuing Interest, alongside the dissenting letter from the Household Adjoining.
FROM THE POND
An early-evening visit to the west pier finds the heron in its accustomed station, the fish unreported, and the dabchicks, through the eldest, issuing a brief statement of the kind the season has come to anticipate.
DISPATCHES
The Wednesday session takes up the upper-bend lights a second time; the Junior Member's motion for an independent observation is minuted, one member dissenting; the Travelling Drake reports no sightings of his own; the Clerk of the Exchequer is at the back of the chamber.
CORRECTIONS
The gazette acknowledges, with the formality the matter requires and the regret it deserves, an inconsistency in the pronouns by which the Deputy of the Warden of the Sluice was named in dispatches filed before the twenty-fourth of May; it has, since that date, observed her stated preference, and undertakes here to go on doing so.
LETTERS
The post following Saturday's editorial: Drake Halford submits a household arithmetic, the Household Adjoining returns to dispute it, the Travelling Drake commends the gazette's firmness, and the correspondent of HONK repute files once again.
FROM THE POND
The Sunday after the editorial finds the east bank in the condition the index predicted: the queue thinned, the crusts dearer, the Travelling Drake watching from a distance, and the frog crossing the channel on business of his own.