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# GKC Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/34020/
- Published: 2014-09-17T06:08:27.000Z
- Updated: 2014-09-17T06:08:27.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

**Background**: When I was the editor of *[Gilbert Magazine](http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*, 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.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Chesterton-Mug-235x300.jpg "Chesterton Mug")

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*. \[Robert Speaight, *Hilaire Belloc*, p. 236\]