Dragging stringsful of tasty fish out of the ponds kept the neighborhood kids occupied for about nine weeks, but conservation officials felt it only fair to put the fish back in a less muddy environment.

When the bottom of the grill firebox burned through, everybody ran over and stomped embers too keep the picnic shelter from catching fire.

Cæsar, in his Consulship, had granted to this King the honor of the Prætexta, or the robe of the Roman Magistrates; which was always disagreeable to the nobility, who did not care to see these petty Princes put upon the same rank with themselves; so the Cicero, calling out upon the nobles, will you, says he, who refused the Prætexta to the King of Bostra, suffer this Comagenian to strut in purple!

Boys from the various slum areas would form themselves into gangs of 'laaities' (those wise in the ways of the city as opposed to naive, newly arrived 'skaapies' from the countryside) and would jealously protect their areas of operation.