LETTER: The joke's on you
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Your support makes all the difference.I was told the story of the police and the roadmenders, as a happening in the remote past, when I went up to Oxford in 1963. At a guess, I'd place it in the frivolous Thirties. Unless some future research turns up a discarded draft for one of The Canterbury Tales: Ye Sheriff, ye heweres of ye rodway and a clerk of Oxenforde.
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