| Show THE QUEST an absurd old law which idaa some very undesirable dickens who so often studied with delighted interest the application of english law to particular cases would found a subject worthy of his trimmest primmest prim in the fact cabled recently from london that when the master of a fishing smack cruising near where the elbe went down saw float ingin the water a dead body which was doubtless that of a victim of alie great disaster lie made no effort to rescue it from alie waves and carry it ashore for identification and burial instead he sailed past and away from the doleful bit of flotsam as quietly as circumstances would permit not as one might suppose because he was a particularly hardhearted hard hearted and cold blooded mariner but because recently after landing a body he had been forced to pay the funeral expenses curious as that experience had been and delightfully illustrative as it was of cr owners quest wisdom the captain had no inclination to repeat it one lesson had been enough to teach him the great principle eliat common sense cannot be allowed to interfere with consistency in the enforcement of a parliamentary act and what in comparison with that is alie continued agonized uncertainty of some german wife or mother |
