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DRAWINGS BY ROY CASTLE

have one worth looking at

Veronica Papworth

A channel crossing can

be strong

THE WAY TO MAKE A

CUSTOMS MAN CRINGE

ATED with high living and low thinking on a mother a ane ripe Pont l'Evequo

Continental scale, it is somewhat debasing to cheese.

the self-esteem of returning holidaymakers to be Unwisely he bought it the quizzed at the Customs on the contents of their day he arrived there. suitcases.

Such Un

Two weeks later, roturning with a load of dutiable loot, he innocent-seem- two stale brioches, the remains faced the Customs official He ing bunch we always appear of a pot of butter (lingering opened his case and out sprang to be as, with bland looks in the pienic basket), one tooth the scent of very old, ripe.

brush, a packet of hairpins, a cheese--snarling. and unblinking eyes, We box of paper handkerchiefs, a

"I've got out-of-date declare our single bottle of road map, two spirits and our 200 "cheap" newspapers, and a fruit knife. cigarettes apiece.

One can see why this Castoma business takes so much ́iine,

Singled out

One wonders what passes in the Customs the minds officers.

Jr

"Shut that case," cried the oficial, groping for his handker- chief.

#1

"But I've got. "SHUT IT quickly," and

"A two-way stretch....one ise reached for his chalk, doll's plastic handbag.... three cheap scurves"....droned the

To travel hopefully (with traveller aliead of me at Dover cheese) in, evildently, to arrive last week,

Only woman-might-bove- noted that the suede coat and. the shoes she was wearing were brand new and made in Spain.

without hold-ups!

DATE SANDWICH

I bet they weren't on little list!

her

STEW KID. chopped stoned

On

the

the other side of

dates in a teacup of water Channel, the inquisitors do their with the juice and grated zind

How in the world is the wear work on the train with, pre-of a lemon until reduced to a

er of a waistcoat lined with watches, the

a ́results. But at least there is no man with of half-digested delay. stomach full diamonds,

the or

with heroin In its hub caps OUIT singled out from the rest?

car

No doubt the eagle eyes of

sumably, more or less the same thicklah pulp.

Slavo together 1 teacupe,

cupa flour, 14 | self-raising [breakfast' oats and 1⁄2 teaspoon salt Hub 4oz. butter Into them, then ir In'a toxoup of soft brown sugar.

The answer

It occurs to me that one small

Prose half this mixture into a

the chup with the chalk in his boy of my acquaintance has buttered large sandwich tin. hand are darting everywhere as quite innocently discovered a Spread the date.pulp on it and be repeats that everything-yes. possible solution

to the swiftover with the remaining mix- everything-bought abroad getaway.

ture. Press well down,

must be declared.

Bake for 30 to 40 minutie In During his stint of a fort-a moderate oven (350 to 370

Had I taken him literally this night's "exchange" with a boy degrees Fahr, or gas mark 4 to

shoud also have listed in Rouen be bought for his B),

time I

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