returned as elected on the Temperance and Vegetarian ticket. So finally you
get your members duly elected without the blighting interference of the
Caucus and the party wire-pullers generally. You see that, of course?"

"Yes," I said, "I suppose I see it."

"Of course you do, and the others will see it too. And they'll realise that
the House of Commons will be a different place when the old system is
destroyed and every shade of opinion is represented. But what chiefly
appeals to me in it is its extraordinary simplicity and perspicuous ease. A
child could perform the duties of counter or returning officer, and any
voter, male or female, can master the system in about five minutes."

I thanked Mr. WELLS for his courtesy and staggered dizzily back to Bouverie
Street.

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On "How to Dig," from a recently-published military manual:--

"To dig well one must dig often. Any series of complex co-ordinated
movements can be performed with the greatest economy of effort only
when they have become semi-reflex; and for this to happen the
correlated series of nervous impulses must be linked up by higher
development of the brain cells."

A spade is useful, too.

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