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text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I like this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It’s from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sweet William</i>, by Richmal Crompton, who is one of the very few, possibly the only, author I read in my childhood that I can still read today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It’s from a chapter titled “Pensions for Boys":</span><br /><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">     “William walked down the road, whistling his loud untuneful whistle and kicking a suitably-sized stone from side to side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>He wasn’t going anywhere in particular, so it didn’t matter when he got there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Even if he had been going anywhere in particular it wouldn’t have made any difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>William considered it waste of time to walk straight along a road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>If there weren’t stones to kick, there were ditches and hedges to investigate, trees to climb …”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">It’s the whistling that gets me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Whistling while walking is supposedly a sign of innocence, but it always comes over as a sign of guilt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Now I’m not sure if small boys do much whistling anymore, although I know that Bart Simpson does:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-54wImEQVmt..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-54wImEQVmt..." width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I can’t believe that Matt Groening ever read the Just William books but Bart and William are clearly brothers under the skin.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UJNHzjPJBK..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UJNHzjPJBK..." width="598" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And they’re both some kin of Felix the Cat, the walking, whistling feline. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to think I’m some kin too.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHol..." height="1" width="1" alt=""/>