The Menace in France

IN these dark times, when war threatens to engulf a considerable portion of the globe, I hesitate to obtrude upon the public a merely personal problem; but the fact is that we in France-I mean my wife and I-have a border problem. Our neighbors’ goats stray onto our land continually and cause us a great deal of irritation.

We live in a region where lotus-eaters and other marginal types gather. Our nearest town is full of aging hippies, the women in cheesecloth and the men with their increasingly scant and graying hair rather optimistically tied into a little bunch that they would like to be a ponytail. This part of France used to be strongly Protestant, but now I suspect that Buddhism is one of the larger minority religions. Certainly, there seem to be a number of shops selling incensescented candles, wind chimes, and other minor accoutrements of Eastern spirituality.

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Anthony Daniels

Mr. Daniels, a retired doctor who worked in several parts of the world, is the author of Mass Listeria, a book about health scares.

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IN these dark times, when war threatens to engulf a considerable portion of the globe, I hesitate to obtrude upon the public a merely personal problem; but the fact is that we in France-I mean my wife and I-have a border problem. Our neighbors’ goats stray onto our land continually and cause us a great deal of irritation.

We live in a region where lotus-eaters and other marginal types gather. Our nearest town is full of aging hippies, the women in cheesecloth and the men with their increasingly scant and graying hair rather optimistically tied into a little bunch that they would like to be a ponytail. This part of France used to be strongly Protestant, but now I suspect that Buddhism is one of the larger minority religions. Certainly, there seem to be a number of shops selling incensescented candles, wind chimes, and other minor accoutrements of Eastern spirituality.