The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, March 7th, 1916.

582nd day

Still the snow, bitter cold, & no warming apparatus at work! Ralph went off by the 10.29 a.m. train, taking with him for his mind's sustenance one of Marjory Bowen's historical romances. I wrote some of the Warburton paper, which has now become odious to me. Ernest developed a chill, & kept in bed all day. I attended Evensong, & afterwards wasted an hour in talking to Wilson, & two of the officers, Captains Lewis & Dixon, who called. Wilson says that he has in the Chapter clerk's office an old paper of regulations, which contains a resolution that no payment be made for the slaughter of owls in the College. This suggests that there had been a plethora of these night rovers, & that the measures taken against them had proved but too effectual.

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