'That thing under it is a photograph of a drinking-cup for which one of
our pupils won a national scholarship last year!'
Mr Aked appeared in the distance.
'I fancy the old boy wants to be off to bed,' Mr Brindley whispered
kindly.
So we left the Wedgwood Institution. I began to talk to Mr Brindley
about music. The barbaric attitude of the Five Towns towards great
music was the theme of some very lively animadversions on his part.