y
carefully in the light of the Rules and Regulations governing
procedure in State Departments, Magna Carta, the Habeas Corpus Act and
the Constitutions of Clarendon, and have come to the conclusion that
it means "making jam." I am very sure, as the PRIME MINISTER would
say, that things are about to happen in preserved fruit products;
things will become very much worse and very much sterner in jam. And
if in jam why then also in jelly and in marmalade. Even at this moment
in the offices of the Board of Agriculture there are a number of
clerks, I suppose, sitting with schedules in front of them, something
like this:--

+------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+-----+
| |No. of |No. of |No. of |No. of |No. of | |
| |candidates|candidates|candidates|candidates|candidates| |
| |in |awaiting |fully |trained |full, but |Total|
| |training |training |trained |but not |not | |
| |in |in | |full |trained | |
+------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+-----+
| | | | | | | |
|1. Jam | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
+------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+-----+
| | | | | | | |
|2. Jelly | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
+------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+-----+
| | | | | | | |
|3. Marmalade| | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
+------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+-----+
| | | | | | | |
| Total | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
+------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+-----+

The perfect beauty of schedules framed upon this model is only to be
apprehended by thos