Sir, – King Charles might be spared a tantrum or two, at least in public, if he were to acquire a Cross pen. A luxury pen would scarcely make a dent in the privy purse. – Yours, etc,
DOROTHY BARRY,
Mallow,
Co Cork.
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Sir, – What of the trecherous pen? One imagines it languishing in a dank dungeon in the Tower of London, “until His Majesty’s pleasure be known”, as the phrase has it. Let us hope it does not share the fate of the Old Orange Flute. – Yours, etc,
PAUL GRIFFIN,
St Helens,
Merseyside, UK.
