While the boss was on holiday, the deputy made sure things were ticking over in the firm.

Commonalities between past pandemics and current events are also found in the understanding that the close quarters of public transport facilitate the transmission of infectious diseases.

When we got to the Darby, in course our fust thort was lunch, but afore I coud get beyond laying the cloth, there came such a reglar buster of an ail storm that we was all drove hunder the homnibus for shelter, and when it leaved off, and I went on the roof, the table cloth was about three inches thick with round ale stones!

'Made one quite thankful to get back to the fug, though as a rule I think the way these trains are overheated is something scandalous'.