War in the Air

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. When they had made up the pavement of the High Street, they levelled that up so that one had to go down three steps into the shop. Tom did his best to sell only his own excellent but limited range of produce; but Progress came shoving things into his window, French artichokes and aubergines, foreign apples - apples from the State of New York, apples from California, apples from Canada, apples from New Zealand, pretty lookin' fruit, but not what I Should call English apples, said Tom bananas, unfamiliar nuts, grape fruits, mangoes.