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I locate a shaggy dog

in a jumper

T

an

AND THE VOYAGE COSTS TUPPENCE

by BERNARD WICKSTEED -

London.

WICKSTEED OF THE on the island for 23 years. All HIS week I carried out ISLES back from the she was certain of was that you

anthropological Atlantic - INVESTIGATES don't put onions in an cel pic. survey of the customs A and habits of the Eel Pic AN Islanders. One of the great MINUTES FROM LONDON flat, but she could not stick all

advantages Eel Ple has over other islands in the Empire is that it's only half in hour from the West End of London. So you do not need to organise a marine expedition to got there. You can go by the ferry for 24.

Eel Pio Island is about a quarter of a mile long by 80 yarda wide, and lies in the Twicken- Thames between

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ham and Ham, The 60 in- habitants all speak English, and include 16 children, West End wine walter, show girl from the Folies Bergere, several City bugi- countess ness men, and a who keeps rabbits.

are

Their dwellings chalets, bungalows, house- boats, cabin cruisers, and an hotel-with-a-ballroom-for 280 couples. They pay their ordinary rates to Twicken- ham and Middlesex, and their water rates to the pub -quite rightly, too, these days,

Trained

anthropologists

will note immediately one obvious link with the cul- ture of the surrounding suburban tribes. This is the

TRIBE INHABITING

Mrs Rudder left the island once and went to live in 22

THIRTY ISLAND

MES, HAROLD MACK -with the wheel on which she spins dog's wool

MITZI, THE SAMOYED -on its back, the raw material

the modern conveniences, and ofter six months she came bacic.

+ *

It is her daughter, Nicole, who was in the Folies Bergere. If she didn't stop to folk when the show was over she just had time to catch the last train home to Ect Pic Island..

pedigree Samoyed called Mitzi or Snow Ray of Kobe, and when It moulted it left so much han on the carpet that she decided to do something about it.

So she took some samples, and went to a schoot of weaving where she learned how

to spin it. Then she bought a spinning wheel at a sale, and now there more dog's wool on the because It is ipu

is no

carpets

valuable.

The shore is far away

to make

one

EVERY year Mitzi provides jumper or half a dozen paira Menough wool

of gloves. "Once you've wom dog's gloves," she said, "you never want any others."

When It is finished, dog's wool is rather like Angora, but Angora too. It is called Fluffy. duffler. Mra Mack has

an

Next door to the Rudders lives Harty Buckley, who builds Last time-there was a god on aluminium Hicboats for tunkers, The advantage alummlu

oil the island. I nearly got drown- of ed, and she had to put it in the lifeboats is that bathroom with the chickens, length for langth they curry four or ve more people than wooden or steel ones.

Harry's workshop and slipway Is just outside' hla back door. it's a sort of back-shipyard. He employs 27 men and turns out a Hlebost every two days. He hus just launched his 150th.

The countess was out

N the other side of the island

ON

Is Mrs Buttons Goodman, who keeps the only shop on the Island and hires out "drive- yourself" motor-boats,

Mrs Goodman was all set to buy an island in the Seychelles. She had the boat to get there (a.converted barge) and the crew ther brother, and a, fon)— and then the war came.

went to Eel Pio

wny they label their name? According to folklore dwellings with such names on the island, it is something So she

Linga Longa, Kuala to do, with Henry VIII, who Island Instead, Lumpur, Wild Thyme, Chez used to drop in for a bit of eel pic on his way to Hamp- Nous, and Shamrock.

ton Court.

as

The name is a mystery

A

A little further along is Wild Thyme, where the countess lives.

She was out when I called, so

I knocked at the door of Shamrock next, and there I met Mrs Horold Muck. Fair Isle

has nothing on her, She spins dog's wool and knits Jumpers with it.

does, She She's

Nobody makes eel pies all I saw were her rabbits. there now. In fact, no- body is absolutely sure what an eel ple looks like or how LMOST certainly this you would make one if you

proves that the Eel Pie wanted to, Islanders originated on the mainland,

of cheery where names

couple like these are still in fellows called Michael and common use. The people Tony were discussing just probably fled to their island this question when I looked fastness (several hundred in at the hotel bar. "Have a yards from the nearest bus) drink," they said, "this to escape persecution by hotel belongs to us. We've Government Inspectors and just bought it, and now we the peril of zebra crossings, want to know what an eel

pie is."

→

The last train

home

As there are no roads on the island there are no cars. All the same, the islanders have not entirely escaped the effects of civilisation. Nine months ago they were TONY, who used to be an ac- given main drainage, and in countant in a 'pram' factory, May they got a fire pump, said he thought it was just the Last month the council instead of rhubarb or steak, you as any other ple, but started emptying their dust put eels in it.

same

bins for the first time (with ****

a dust-boat instead of a "Ah!" said Michael, who is dust cart), and soon Island. In the antique fumiture bust history will be made when but how do you cook the the Post Office instals the colt In brandy? Sherry? Or first public telephone.

A

clder??

Nobody knew, the adswer, fla Talking about history, that, not even Mrs Bob Hudder how did the placo, get, ita-behind-the's bar, whỏi has been

Honestly she showed mc.

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POCKET CARTOON

By OSBERT LANCASTER

Per Polizids, pollites, politics-

their French generals don't evét, seam to think of whything iclas 1925

out of life on an island," sho "We do at least get come fun

said. "I wouldn't go back to the shore for anything,”

-(London Express Service)

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