From Anthony Bullock
Redmarley d’Abitot, Gloucestershire
I don’t know just why “ninthly”, as opposed to some other amount, but this
same joke appeared as a delightful cartoon by Fougasse in a pre-war Punch.
The picture showed two gowned and earnest dons deep in conversation striding
obliviously through wind, rain and autumn leaves in the quad, over the caption
“and ninthly . . . “. I don’t suppose the joke was new even then.
