I retreated into myself and allowed myself to be swallowed into a typically autistic shutdown.

In Xinjiang, the census workers of the joint census team of Bayinguoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture and Jing County were caught in a storm and stranded in a desert 5,000 metres above sea level as their lorry had got stuck in the snow.

Ah, if I thought they war huntin’ the big bonanza, I’d hev asserted my right to the whole claim.

As it appeared, there was to be no loss of time in the outsetting.