'CBE, Minister,' he replied, unhappily. I wasn't sure what he meant. Could I have been awarded the CBE.? – or could he? He explained. "Can't Be Everywhere'.

It was a drift-canoe sure enough, and I clumb in and paddled her ashore.

There’s not a crust, not a crumb can we find, can we beg, can we borrow, or cadge […]

We'll have them in three days, and it ought to be fairly simple to dope out the opposite of a tractor, too—a pusher or presser beam.