During the year of my engagement — 1869 — while I was out on the lecture platform, the daily letter that came for me generally brought me news from the front — by which expression I refer to the internecine war that was always going on in a friendly way between these two orthographists about the spelling of words.

After a week's manœuvrability tests at Winwick, the locomotive was to undergo three weeks' trials, light engine and loaded, between Whitchurch and Tattenhall Junction.

It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.

For a short time in the later stages of World War I, one of the 4-6-0s was utilised also on a slow train from Perth to Glasgow, returning with the 1.30 p.m. from Glasgow to Aberdeen, on which it was remanned at Perth; it came back to Perth with the 8 p.m. fish train from Aberdeen.