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others with white-collar incomes | others with white-collar incomes. As I observed these villas on later trips - we used to walk the 3 miles because the tram between | ||
Maidstone and Loose was sort of pokey-slow and we were young and fast - I used to be amused. Young boys with Kentish accents | Maidstone and Loose was sort of pokey-slow and we were young and fast - I used to be amused. Young boys with Kentish accents | ||
would approach and ask for cigarette cards. My wife would interpret, the boys were seeking little cards enclosed in those cardboard | would approach and ask for cigarette cards. My wife would interpret, the boys were seeking little cards enclosed in those cardboard | ||
cigarette packets which had pictures of cricket heroes, reminiscent to me of the time, around 1911, when american Boys used to | cigarette [[underlined: packets]] which had pictures of cricket heroes, reminiscent to me of the time, around 1911, when american Boys used to | ||
collect cigarette cards of ball players, Christy Mathewson being my hero. The magazine Punch frequently depicts a suburban scene | collect cigarette cards of ball players, Christy Mathewson being my hero. The magazine [[underlined: Punch]] frequently depicts a suburban scene | ||
in its cartoons, with "Mon Repos" on at least one front gate. | in its cartoons, with "Mon Repos" on at least one front gate. | ||
Even in the villages the folk demand privacy, often old neighbors are screened from one another by a good solid brick wall. It would | Even in the villages the folk demand privacy, often old neighbors are screened from one another by a good, solid brick wall. It would | ||
be a rare house that did not "draw the blinds" immediately that dusk approached, and the thick curtains in the day would prevent any | be a rare house that did not "draw the blinds" immediately that dusk approached, and the thick curtains in the day would prevent any | ||
vagrant eyes from seeing much. My wife used to be fascinated by the sights she used to see in exposed windows | vagrant eyes from seeing much. My wife used to be fascinated by the sights she used to see in exposed windows | ||
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2 others with white-collar incomes. As I observed these villas on later trips - we used to walk the 3 miles because the tram between Maidstone and Loose was sort of pokey-slow and we were young and fast - I used to be amused. Young boys with Kentish accents would approach and ask for cigarette cards. My wife would interpret, the boys were seeking little cards enclosed in those cardboard cigarette underlined: packets which had pictures of cricket heroes, reminiscent to me of the time, around 1911, when american Boys used to collect cigarette cards of ball players, Christy Mathewson being my hero. The magazine underlined: Punch frequently depicts a suburban scene in its cartoons, with "Mon Repos" on at least one front gate.
Even in the villages the folk demand privacy, often old neighbors are screened from one another by a good, solid brick wall. It would
be a rare house that did not "draw the blinds" immediately that dusk approached, and the thick curtains in the day would prevent any vagrant eyes from seeing much. My wife used to be fascinated by the sights she used to see in exposed windows