Deciding that he hasn't had enough action for one day, Captain Evans of the Johnston orders another 180-degree about-face to give gunfire support to the new arrivals, this time picking on the heavy cruiser Tone.

He had the wild idea that if he leant forward a little, he might be able to touch the mountain-top.

The hunting of the kind of winged creatures, taken as a whole, is called wildfowling.

It was before the day of my ministry in Caulds, for then I was a tot callant in short clothes in my native parish of Lesmahagow; […]