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As a child attending Westminster Road school, I rather foolishly volunteered to obtain an eye from an animal so it could be dissected, and the class could see the magnifying effect of its lens. I asked Jack Dinwoodie if he could supply an eye. ‘Yes’, he said, ‘come with me’, and he promptly took me to the rear of the shop, got a carcass out of the cold store, gave me a sharp knife and told me to cut the eye from its socket. I just couldn’t do it. Jack gently took the knife from me and expertly detached the eye from its socket, wrapped it up, and gave it to me with a big chuckle and smile on his face.
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