The discourse of some with whom I have had some habitudes since my coming home.

Shut out the flower-time, / Sunbeam and shower-time; / Make way for our time, / The winter-tide.

As they drew closer, the cause of their ragged flight became apparent: the lead gryphon flew irregularly, and the two that followed were forced to rush ahead or backwing alternately to keep up.

The trick of the little figure that vanishes, the Bonus Genius, as it was called, can be traced back to the seventeenth century, when this trick was recorded in one of the earliest magic books […]