ncircles
the path of its children by legalised temptations at every corner. It
is the maddest of worlds. I may be wrong and the General wholly right.
But as the ticket-collector said the last time I saw him--"I would like
to see the man who could convince me that I am wrong." And I don't
know whether to be grateful to the ticket-collector or not. He has
deprived me of some of my sleep; he has made my head ache with thinking
of problems which I am not fit to cope with; and, most unlooked for of
all, he has made a tee-totaler of me till the end of the war. There is
a plaintive note in the ticket-collector's voice, which strikes a chord
in my heart, when he invariably adds: "I hope the war won't last long."
For, if it does, there will be the danger of the ticket-collector and
myself becoming teetotalers for altogether. And it is such an ugly
word--tee-totaler! If only the ticket-collector would coin a new and
beautiful word to connote his new and beneficent state of mind! It is
a pity that great causes should be burdened by the weight of ugly words.

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