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Smart Alec – Manure for the roses

Get your bucket and spade son, we’re off to the beach.
To make sandwiches?
No, to get some horse manure for the roses

This cartoon by Alec J. Wills appeared in CT Poole
September 2008 when Martyn Brown was editor.

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