Aunt Primrose took a little sacheted handkerchief from her bosom and touched it to her lips, and a tear began to run down Aunt Jim Allen’s dry, rice-powdered cheek.

For now shall I sleep in the dust.

The Bird's nest fungi are related to puffballs.

The most generalised member of the family is the flightless scaletail (Zenkerella insignis) of West Africa, which has the appearance of a small grey squirrel, although furnished with scales on the tail.