GKC Wednesday

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.

Chesterton Short(s)

In 1909 the English humor magazine Punch printed the following couplet by Hilaire Belloc:

French is my heart and loyal and sincere
Is, and shall be, my love of English beer.

”¦along with Punch's suggestion that the other half of the Chesterbelloc should have given his latest novel the title, The Man Who Was Thirsty. [Robert Speaight, Hilaire Belloc, p. 236]