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"Never mind" what The Archbishop will say here comes Chalky."

honest

TEST TUBE BABIES "an should be made a crime and

says the Primate

UPCOUNTRY by THURLOW CRAIGNEDOS

THE DAY Mr. STOAT WIPED

OUT A COLONY OF RATS

This worst the stont is a courageous little beast oboying the laws of nature without realising that he is breaking those of man. At his best he is a humorist, sometimes a clown.

He ranks high as the gamekeeper's enemy, but I know farmers who regard him as friend-for he kills rats and mice that would otherwise plunder the stackyards.

Not long ago I witnessed

One morning I sat hidden on a fantastic episode on & the opposite bunk hoping for a canal which rambles down shot at one of them, but they was there, the border counties, remain must have known. I ing in being as a feeder to for they kept hidden.

waterways the Midlands

A moorhen bobbed fussily by, providing drinking- taking no notice of me. A water water for thousands of vole, sleek and shining, sut and head of stock..

and

combed his whiskers within five feet of me. Two, placons con- Unused by barges, it runs versed in a tree above my head, as clear as crystal and hor- Blut never a rat appeared. bours wild life of many The water teems species. with big fish, while birds of all kinds find sanctuary in the reeds that line the banks.

LIKE A SNAKE

Then wild squeals

Then, on the towpath a few Coots and moorhens yards away to my right, some- bustle about quite tamely, thing moved. I held my breath as a slim stout stood up on its and there is even a place in fee to take in the scene, where a family of otters Apparently it decided that there has raised several broods was nothing to fear from man without attracting the at- or beast. tention of the local otter. Hunt.

UNCANNY SKILL

The graceful tile creature plunged into the canal and swam strongly across, flat head polsed on curved neck, just like snake. Arriving at the other side, it disappeared in a crack of the wharf between two great ** stones,

М

Rala

In avoiding man

Mallard and other wild- Suddenly there was an an- fowl too are plentiful on guished shriek followed by a this lovely old canal, Here chorus of wild squeals.

appeared all over the place, and there are old wharves popping like champagne corici Nowadays they are desert- out of one hole, back into an- ed, and the thick stono ollier, and out again somewhere blocks have become natural else. It was like a scene out of rock gardens,

A Disney fla

the

Rats plunged or silpped and Que wharf in particular fell into the water, wwimming WAN both beautiful and anywhere to escape the red evil, because it harboured a destroyer and some of them great colony of brown rats were much bigger than

stout. I could have shot several; which preyed on stackyards but this was no case for blunder- and chicken-rura near by. ing human intervention, so I lot Thene filthy brutes were al the brave little stoat have his most invulnorable in their fun. stona fortress, showing now there were fewer rats, uncanny akill in avoiding and finally the father of the tribe appeared, his entire body.

man.

+ "

devold of hair and covered with loathsome gey scales, Up be- old rat fell heavily into the hind him shot the stoet and the water, sinking Immediately.

BATTLE OVER

Not a rat left

terbury

moving

TWO

case

women

talked the other day about the "An honest and moving case THE Archbishop of Can-

artificial secret of their happiness demanded can be made out for

insemination by a donor but it a secret they wish they the other day that artificial cannot be treated as a private could share with the Arch- insemination by an anony matter only.

bishop of Canterbury. mous donor should be made a criminal offence.

If that could not be done, he said, the law should re- quire that each case be re- gistered.

'No security'

The register should record the nome of the donor and be avaliable for Inspection under Epleguards.

"Doctors know they are trespassing on ground which, I not forbidden, is heavily mined. "In their anxiety to do no wrong they take immense care not really matters that do belong to medical science all"

in

Fisher

that

பர

bo

Dr

believes artineint Insemination by donor should anonymous made a criminal offence.

The women

who at housewives

babies this way. hin the story in her Chiswick home to the accompaniment of the gurgles of her seven-month-old, baby boy:-

The archbishop referred to a recent case in Scotland where t husband was refused divorce on grounds of adultery ofter his wife gave birth to a "test-tube baby

are

bolh

London kundi

És

is 36-told

"We had been married for six He said: "If the law gives years and all that time tve kim remedy against adultery longed for a child. One day I husband how he Dr Fisher, 70, and the father by his wife, it can hardly deny asked my

him a remedy against his wife would feel about a test-tube of vix sons, devoted most of a If she bears into his family a baby. 3,000-word address to the

"He replied: To share in its subject at the Convocation of child born out of wedlock and

without his knowledge."

environment art its upbringing Canterbury at Westminster.

-that's ample for me."

BEAUTIFUL

among

TV talk

He told the Church's "parlia- ment"-

"Marriage is meant

"And so I had the baby. Now ather things to give children the Then the archbishop attacked he is such a beautiful boy.

I security of knowing who their the accret partner in artificial think he resembles my husband. parents are and to give society insemination the donor--say- This baby has made us moro the sime escurity.

ing: "He begets children whom united because we both believe "Artictal insemination des-

he will never be able to ace or

that science is a gift of God troys that security,

know, and for whose temporal and should be used for man's "The child is to be the te- and Epiritual welfare he can

benent." The battle was over, Not, n

victim long

of -deception; never bear any personal

Mrs Y, who is 32, has a four single rat remained in sight,

year-old son barn after artificial and the stoat now performed the society is deceived also; and the responsibility.

family mother, foster father,

that is not adultery on insemination. She plans to have characteristle dance of his tribe and child exist in a relationship his

part it is something far three more children. She said when pleased or-as I then which is not that of nature nor less responsible and FAR LESS saw-triumphant. He bucked that of open adoption, but one HUMAN than adultery." along the top of the wharf, of secret make-belleve. clucking with every stiff-legged, hump-backed jump until he went ver the edge and fell in with a splash,

He swam calmly back to my side, got out on to the towpath,

'Deception'

"My husband and had baby. It was born dead and I Dr Fisher then sold: "I am

was told it would be impossible told that recently in a discussion for me to have another child.

30

on television a élergyman of the "I felt that our marriagɑ WES Church of England Bald that slipping, that it was essential

Church had the

given

My for me to have a child. guidance on this matter

husband agreed that I should "It is hard to believe that o decision on

"He was very wrong. It is have a test-tubo baby." so profound [

a serious thing for a clergyman From man, the last word.

nation-wide Sald 35-year-old Mr Yi "O shook himself drywand spotted matter of social, domestle and

moral welfare should be left thus to mislead a

audience."

course I speil him.” me. For a long minute we entirely in the hands of a

But tho Rev. Chad Varalı stared at each other, neither of medical practitioner.

Walbrook, us stirring.

"It is difficult also to suppose of St Stephan's, that the law can allow the who look part in the television the discussion, said: "I did not say "Then he ambled gracefully standing and Integrity of away along the towpath with family and the parentage of that.

"Whoever told him of the a backward glance, children to rest upon deliberate

deception. was harmless.

broadcast was misinformed.” Evidently

never

Myers

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by ANN KENNY