Things are very different when you are off on the sick. . . . For a start, when you are on the Pat and Mick you no longer go to work.

And, Mr. Farfrae, as you provide so much, and houseroom, and all that, I’ll do my part in the drinkables, and see to the rum and schiedam—maybe a dozen jars will be sufficient?

The famous wild cow of Cromwell is no more. After “living the life of Riley” for over a year, successfully evading the pitchforks and the bullets of the farmers, whose fields she ravaged in all four seasons.

Nevertheless, she was a cunny Jamaican woman who knew 'what side her bread was buttered on.'