– Which do you prefer?
– What are we talking about?
– Do you prefer town or country? Copse or Co-op?
– Ah! I’m in two minds. I have a foot in both camps. I’d say it’s fifty-fifty. Six of one, half dozen of the other. Every coin has two sides. You pays your money, you takes your choice. It depends which way you look at it. I hem and I haw. I sit on the fence. I’d say the jury’s out.
– Speaking for myself, I go along with that line from Cowper. God made the country, man made the town.
– I’m dubious. I’d rather not commit myself. Ask me something else.
Martin Stannard
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