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ON WALKING.
THE UNNATURAL ART.
By A. G. Thornton.
Getting off the bus, I proposed that we should first walk a bit,
SATURDAY
RUNNING FIGHTS.
POLICE CHARGES IN HYDE PARK
A series of running fights and several arresta "marked the Hyde Park political meetings on the opening day of the general strike,
by
A man was arrested and rushed across the park to the police station. He was followed several hundreds of people, and the police were reinforced by a cordon others, who formed round the arrested man.
then cat a bit, and then walk
Trouble started when a man again before picnicking and play mado some remark, and the horse ing. I suppose. there have been of one of the mounted policemen, few more unpopular proposals in who were patrolling the park the history of the world. "Walkroada in considerable numbers, again?" " said John, aged 15, un was kicked. derlining "again." "Walk?" gasp- ed Lily, aged 12, underlining "walk." "What do we want to walk for?" snapped Ronald, aged nine. I was carrying the ruck-sack, the basket, the cricket bat, the stumps, and a few other trifles, and I turned round and surveyed my party with difficulty: 1 re- membered that hero of my early days. Mr. Fairchild, father of Lucy, Emily and Henry, I put on my best. Fairchild manner. "No walk, no cats," said sternly; "Come, Lucy, come Henry." And stgode on, whistling a stave and merrily henting the stiler as the men getting away into another merrily as the cricket stumps per-shop. Hore police stopped the
erowd from rushing the doors.
mitted.
Shortly afterwards a number of Fascisti. "Wearing black shirts, became involved in trouble. Tw of them were pounced on by the crowd, and, after being severely hustled, were able to escape into a teashop near Marble Arch. A similar incident occurred later,
a number of
There was childish laughter as I picked myself up, but it soon Two men and a womag with 4" gave place to gloom, profound, motorcycles were also tackled in concentrated, gloom, the sort of the Park, and it is believed the "gloom calculated to bring on any eyele was badly damaged. The thunderstorm that was hanging police cleared the crowds, and it about within a hundred miles. was noticed that At the end of ten minutes Ronald mounted men were posted near asked if it was much farther, the hig meetings, the attendances Lily said she had a göre heel, and at which must have numbered. John asked if he might have a. more than 10,000). sandwich. I strode on, whistling a stave, remambering Hazlitt and Stevenson, admiring the view, and breathing deeply of the wind on the heath. I also informed a running ight aercas the pork. Ronald that if he complained again I would give him something to complain about. At the end of a quarter of a mile John inquired, "Do you like walking, Unk?"
"Walking," I said, **is man's natural mode of locomotion. Leys were made before motor-cars. When I was your age I walked miles and miles every day. No motor buses then."
The Retort Juvenile...
I turned and gazed at them in
Police Station Rush.,
The most exciting, incident of the afternoon was the sequel to
A, man had been arrested, and a crowd of 2,000 persons followed across the park, and appeared to be endeavouring to head the pollee off.
As the police. in charge of the min neared Hyde Park Police Station there was an ugly rush, which caused one officer to draw his baton..
Hardly had the booing and cheering subsided than another fight occurred fimmediately "out-"
the manner I felt sure Mr. Fair-side the station. The police made end would have turned and gazei a rush, at the combatants, and at them, if he had not been carry-after a chase there was another, ing cricket stumps.
detention. By this time there
"Boasting again!" said Ronald, was a big crowd all round the aged ning.
station, and to disperse them a
I walked on, ceasing to whistle number of mounted police charged
a stave. Instead, I gave myself uront. of the side- gateway.
to thought. Truly thought) it
was a degenerate age. fechani
They were given a mixed re-
but good-humouredly
before marched Across
cal transport had debased the ception, human leg, and in doing that had headed the crowd away debased that far more important reinforcementa
the park... thing, the human spirit. We wer spiritually. hus-ridden, the Tubes had honeycombed our souls, we were becoming invertebrates..
"Can we sit down here?" asked
"No:
LI
All the afternoon there was an atmosphere of unusual excitability round the platforms, and the official patrols had been streng thened.
At Glasgow also blows were ex- changed when, Fascists, tried to break up a 'Labour meeting. Two arrests were made.
Where was 17-oh, yes, inverte brates. We were fast becoming invertebrates, we were in immin ent danger of muscular atrophy of the leg. First the boy, dashing unwillingly to school in the local tram, spending his leisure hoursket, stamp. Were we, or were wo on a scooter. Next the youth, onnot, out for the day? I put the 'the push-bike, overtaxing the question to the assembly.
Juvenile heart, Then the lover, "Yes, but I thought we were go- steaming sea-wards like a furnace. ing to play cricket," said Lily. with, his Insa, pillion throned,
"We can't play cricket all day." immobile. Then the merchant, rolling city-wards and back in his With my usual passion for sweet- all slaves to theness and light, I tried to see, the
limousine
machine, blind to the Importance juvenile point of view.
of that great, that almost perfect "The Australians do," said one work of creation, the Human Leg. For the juveniles. (What would Where would it (not the leg, of Mr. Fairchild have said?) course)-where
would it
end
"Is it much further now?" "No."
"Well, I'm nearly dead."
Soliloquy With variations.
all
It was too true. alas. Here were children, my children, at an. age when leagues ought to be miles, and miles furlong, and they wore complaining of fatigue before they had started a-journey- ing.. What pleasure is compar- able to a walk in the spring when all Naturo...
T
"Can I have an apple?" "No." (Nature was at her best. her freshest...).
Well, I'm not going any fur ther then."
"Here is Nature," I began."
"I've seen her. Unk, and I've got
a sore heel," said John.
"I had one before you," protest. ed Lily.
As Hazlitt Did.
"A briy htdot." I said scornfully, and was beginning "When I was.
," when I detected the begin
ning of a word on Ronald's lips. It may or may not have been some- thing to do with boasting.
With Fairchild calm I slippe off the ruck-sack, threw down the bat, and disclaimed all connection with "the stumps.
"Bags,
"Hooray!" cried John 1 left" Nature for the moment. and surveyed the company. The the bat." person who had introduced the Ronald was juggling the stump,[ fruit topic was Lily, the mutineer in the air and Lily was runninf Ronald. What would Mr. Fair- round the field with admirable child have done? He would have fortitude considering the inflamed found a text, I am sure, laid his state of her heel. hand gently on Henry's head (or
As a good Hazlittian 1: Ronald's head as the case might finished the walk to the Cat be), and said, Come Lucy, come and Dolphin alone. After Henry. For the moment I could all, when you come to think not think of a text, and as for put- of it, walking is an unnatural ting my hand on anybody's head.art. linless there is an object in I thought more in terms of a cric-it-Daily Chronicle.
JUNE 12, 1926.
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