"SusieThompson" wrote in message
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Of course it's not April 1st, and the little book was written in all
seriousness. My edition is a 1978 reprint of the 1885 original. I
*think* that the original aim of the book can be neatly summed up in the
following excerpt -

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall quoted from it on one of his TV shows and then
went on to make Woodlouse fritters.