Endnotes
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Perhaps it should be explained—there were at this time three sorts of formal invitation card; there was the nice sensible copybook hand sort with a name and “At Home” and a date and time and address; then there was the sort that came from Chelsea, “Noel and Audrey are having a little whoopee on Saturday evening: do please come and bring a bottle too, if you can”; and finally there was the sort that Johnnie Hoop used to adapt from Blast and Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto.” These had two columns of close print; in one was a list of all the things Johnnie hated, and in the other all the things he thought he liked. Most of the parties which Miss Mouse financed had invitations written by Johnnie Hoop. ↩
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See Decline and Fall. ↩
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This story, slightly expanded, found its way later into a volume of Highland Legends called Tales from the Mist, which has been approved to be read in elementary schools. This shows the difference between what is called a “living” as opposed to a “dead” folk tradition. ↩