unearths some literary gems.
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[From the "Longest Distance Between Two Points" dept.]:
There are few more pleasant spots on the outskirts of England's metropolis [than Valley Fields]. One of its residents, a Major Flood-Smith, in the course of a letter to the South London Argus exposing the hellhounds of the local Rates and Taxes Department, once alluded to it as "a fragrant oasis." He gave the letter to his cook to mail, and she forgot it and found it three weeks later in a drawer and burned it, and the editor would never have printed it, anyway, it being diametrically opposed to the policy for which the Argus had always fearlessly stood, but--and this is the point we would stress--in using the words "fragrant oasis" the Major was dead right.
