Follow-up

THE boy who complained about his mother stopping the car and telling him to pick up horse droppings (Peterborough) missed a chance to make money. When I was young, ‘white van’ drivers had a horse and cart. Three dairies each came round with a horse and cart twice a day. The milkman delivered one pint early in the morning as milk often went off overnight. The second round was later to deliver the milk for the day. If we noticed a pile of horse droppings we got a bucket and the shovel used for coal before other boys saw it. We knew gardeners would pay 6d for a load of manure. We never felt embarrassed as it was cash in hand. Where there’s muck there’s brass.