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We have a PLAN. Before we go any further, it would be best, perhaps, to give a rough explanation of our monetary situation, particularly where it touches our fiscal fiduciaries.

No. Maybe we hadn't better...

Our Plan is really the introduction of a practical currency based on the experience of a life-time.

We propose to have printed notes of various denominations and sizes.

The nineteen and elevenpence three farthings note will be about 12 inches square and suitable for use at millinery sales.

The 37/6, or Boarding House, note will be a little larger, so that the boarder, having paid the landlady with it, the landlady may then wrap the boarder's lunch in it.

From there we go to the 5 pound, 10 pound, and 20 pound issues, which will be of correspondingly larger size, enabling one to wrap up larger parcels.

We have another bright idea for keyholeshaped coins. These would be especially useful after hours. The trouble would be to get keyhole-shaped bottles. We'd probably bring in an Enlarged Keyholes (Amendment) Act.

All this is detail.

Broadly, the Lower Plan consists in printing some tens of millions of five pound notes and distributing two to each of the population. Of course, they would be worth only about 5/—each but that would be 10/-, anyhow; and who is in need of ten shillings?

STAND BACK! The Plan hasn't started yet.

But is it any good! Mais, oui!