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COMING across fervent dedicated Christians from other church fellowships, I must confess that I am apt to covet their unbounded enthusiasm and wish we were nil in one great lovely church, instead of being divided into various denominations.
does not suit another. The blast of a Salvation Army band and the jingle of the tambourine mav help or hinder our worship.
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The Society of Friends of Jesus, known as the Quakers, loves quietness and meditation in its times of communal worship, speaking only as moved by the spirit. I have always found Quakers to be fine folks but prefer a little more open enthusiasm myself It “
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ststers and Jesus is our Master,^aWour and‘Lord
tile same wavelength as our effervescent brothers and sisters in Christ. We must realise that we are all so different m temperament that what appeals to one
again Christians joyfully praising the Lord with unin hibited language. We could possibly regard them as people shaken by folks who are always very cheerful first tiling in a morning, when they' themselves are struggling to come to terms with 'life. We are dis turbed to witness their obvious dedication and com pare our lifetime of quiet persistent Christian living with their bubbling-over enthusiasm. We may have been trying to live in the Christian way all our lives, but sense that we arc not quite on
Some of us are apt to flinch when we hear born- proximity of a certain
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years, but there is now a more testing game: spot
th ought I was playing when visiting Clitheroe
Auction Mart for a cattle sale, as part of this report to discover how an auction works. Rather than hearing the
auctioneer announce "sold to the man on my right
wearing the green hat," 1 was left wondering who
had actually bought the black and white cow. Throughout the morn
"To the uninitiated, that is all you will se e . The buyers will usually just look tit you or turn their heads. Kvcryone has their own little ways."
jittery finger. •Mr Swingler explained:
Whil,. conducting one
auction. Mr Swingler even had a bidder who It i s h e a d a s t It
someone had just s t .......... bis toot, his grimacing face being the bidding signal. This now sheds a differ
cut light on the whole pro feedings: perhaps the man constantly sneezing llte other sipping his of te a we r e , in fact bidding.
I «1<k\s not s ta r t and stop ! with identifying tlu* bid
Of co u rse , an auction
der. There is a whole pro cess beforehand, starting
animals are each allocated a pen and. prior to goin^ in the auction rin^, are weighed and ^iven a lot number. These are then displayed to all the bidders on a screen. Once the animal is in the
ring, the auctioneer has the opportunity to come into his own and his first task is to value the cattle in nence per kiloj^ramme. M r S w i n ^ 11* r e o m -
mented: "The a r t of a decent auct ioneer is to value an animal really quickly, without wasting a lot of time.” He explained that fol-
with preparing for sale the cattle, sheep or whatever is beinyr sold. In the case of cattle, the
am! cup
siiook i ti g li •d <
a u c t io n la n g u a g e
h \ E R Y w e e k y o u m a v h a v e n ot ic ed C l i th e ru e Au c t io n M a n rep o r t s , but p e rh ap s th ey sound a bit confusing to the unini t iated, so
pi ime beef cattle bred to provide meat for market.
prime lambs. • bight bulls made to l l lp (1(
17.ltip)
red for their meat. • Hams — Sheep raised to breed
— The highest price for a light hull was H ip kg, with the price of all light bulls
A SKKIOUS car accident two years ago left come
self, is called “ The bonus of laughter.” Other additions:
reco v e ry , told with wit and w a rm th , is among th e new books at Clitheroe Library. The book, by Crowther him
dian Leslie Crowther with less than a 5(Kt chance of survival. The miraculous s tory of his
h e re is a quick explanat ion of some terms : O (. lean cattle
cattle. b © Crime lambs — High quality lambs
® Cast cows — Also known as dairv I hese are voung averaging tit 107. Hip.
sold lor 170 guineas. In previous vears, the seller would receive 170gns and the auctioneer would receive 170 shillings in commission for the sale.
© Light, medium, heavy — These are
tile different weight brackets used to categorise cattle and sheep.
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• Shearling, Maslmm and Swaledale ?
llL'cT at die market times a year, the auction holds sales of
A i r l ' h e ^ L V ^ 1^ ^ ©Machinery sale — Around three
farm machinery in addition to its regular cattle and sheep sales.
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Km mu T ennan t. The author’s inventive sequel to Jane Aus ten’s “Pride ami Prejudice” finds
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.Maddox. Lawrence’s perplex- iiiK. res tles s life is examined through his greatest contradic tion, his marriage. Drawing on material which has onlv recently come to light, the author pres ents us with a fascinating new jwrlrait of the writer. “An unequal m a r r ia g e ” —
“The married inun: A life of I). II. Lawrenc e" — Hrcnda
Mr Darcy a,„| Kliiahclh with two c h i ld re n , M iran d a and
r.dward. Hut Kdward's lack of .suitability as an h eir ra is e ,
questions about the succession of Pemberloy. "Murder o f H dead man" —
K a th e r in e J o h n . While th e police seek a killer in a dark urban underworld, the tallv of victims grows alarmingly. The
only thing of which the'police can be certain is tha t no one should l*e trusted!
• Suffolk aged rams made to 17(lgns * hi**' means the highest priced ram
a u e t i o n e e r M r .1 u h n .Swingler that my bid spot ting count stood at only one. lie quickly reassured tne th a t th e p ro c e s s involves more titan just a
ing’s sale. I only saw one bidder's finger twitch, so when faced with a barrage of faces, all determined not to give the game away, the task of an auc tioneer certainly appears a diltleult one. After explaining to chief
the bid d e r at a c at t le auction. Well, this is what I
pot the ball competitions h a v e b e e n confusing the na tio n 's s p o r t s fans for many
under way tit the sale. Mr Sw in g l e r s o u n d e d as though he was talking a d i f f e r e n t lan g u ag e — speaking 10 to the dozen is
an unfa i r de sc r ipt ion, b e c a u s e it was much faster. It is hardly surprising
that around 110 cattle tire sold every hour, with very few lots remaining unsold,
constantly banged down on his ro s t rum, while farmers paraded their cat tle round the ring for the benefit of the eagle-eyed bidders.
hand-pointing from the sel lers in the ring fol
Much head-shaking and
lowed, but .Mr .Swingler told me this was just "kid- dology" to ensure the best price is fetched.
Mr Swingler. who has
been tin auctioneer for Is years, firmly believes tin auction is not as difficult to u n d e r s ta n d a.- it f i rst appears; it is ju.-t a rase of getting Used to people's ways.
"You have an idea of tile (' 111K F auctioneer Mr John Swingl
I'
u.ving potent ial before t ime wh you even start. If a man
goes into a garage bidding
lor ti Mini, you know he won't hill for Ko]]s . Royce. The same applies
tique that people tend to think. I know <i,y.; of the
tor the classes of cattle. "There is not the mys
when I at tend auction sale i \ te ly t a k e car sneeze — or I o tingly become owner of a flock dale tups.
what." said Mr Rearing all ti;
w i l l bid lur
mind. next
iwit- In- o
wh e n th e p a c e is so frantic. Mr Swin g le r ’s gavel
pr ice as p o s s ib le ," Mr Swingler said. Once the bidding was
lowing this decision, which only comes through know ledge and experience of the market, he can decide on a price at which to start the bidding. “It is then my job to get it as near the finishing
Nod is as good as a wink at local mart
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