A woman staying with us came down with cholera. This person had evacuated with her family from Haerbin, which was under Communist control, thinking that it would be easier to repatriate from Changchun than northern Haerbin.

Among the regular articles of this street-sale are Coventrys, or three-cornered puffs with jam inside; raspberry biscuits; cinnamon biscuits; chonkeys, or a kind of mince-meat baked in crust; Dutch butter-cakes; Jews' butter-cakes; bowlas, or round tarts made of sugar, apple, and bread; jumbles, or thin crisp cakes made of treacle, butter, and flour; and james, or open tarts with a little preserve in the centre.

It created a disruption, and then some.

Timon , thou hast a wife morigerous Shee is the onely comfort of my age.