Why, my Lord, you see he's the provokingest Creature in Life: I believe, there is not such another in the varsal World.

(4) Ting Pao-cheng, lieut.-governor of Shantung, reports having sacrificed to the Tai Shan (泰山), inspected the Confucian Temple at Chüfow (the native place of Confucius), which has just undergone a thorough repair, and examined the dykes erected to protect the low lands, in the neighbourhood of Yuncheng, from the inundations of the Yellow River.

I thought they were joking at first, but it seemed they were genuinely interested in the talk about glaciers.

King of Thogarma, and his Habergions Brimstony, blue, and fiery