When St. Bernard founded his abbey, near Clairvaux, he and his thirteen companions lived on barley, or cockle-bread, with boiled beech leaves as vegetables, while they were employed grubbing up the forest, and in building huts for their habitation.

It's a good thing that television doesn't transmit smell.

‘A kid like that oughtn’t to be mixed up with things,’ Ida said. ‘If he was mine I’d just larrup it out of him.’

When the stentors become too numerous it is a simple matter to subdivide the culture and add the requisite amount of spring water to each culture.