Tooth-drawers' bills, and tedious proclamations / In meal-markets, with throngings to see cutpurses […]

I believe there are few who have not, even in their gladdest hours, felt how nearly gaiety and sadness are allied; a shadow steals over the spirits, like a cloud over the moon, soft and subduing, perhaps transitory, but not the less dark for the moment.

The Swoose was so named because it contained so many scavenged parts that it was half swan and half goose or a “Swoose”.

The cat hated when they dressed him up for Halloween.