The Henson Journals

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Saturday, February 21st, 1925.

The toad beneath the harrow knows

Exactly where each tooth–point goes.

The butterfly beside the road

Preaches contentment to that toad.

Quoted by Oldham. P.173

I spent the day in writing a Preface for the 2nd edition of Quo tendimus?

Chancellor Ponsonby, Rector of Bow Church, lunched here with his son, a student of University College, Durham. He had often been here in the time of my three immediate predecessors. He said that he had known the Archbishop of Canterbury before his Ordination, & that he was present when Davidson, then a curate of Dartford, received from Archbishop Tait the offer of the Chaplaincy, & that he (Davidson) was at first much disposed to decline it.

I walked round the Park with the dogs, & on my return to the Castle wrote to that foolish woman, Mrs Hodgson, who has been writing to the local newspapers about political clergymen, & who had the temerity to call upon me for a disavowal of a paragraph which had not, and did not claim any connexion with me!

At sunrise this morning there was an Aurora Borealis, and the weather became very cold.

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