The seaswine are almost always seen in troops, especially in their sexual season, which is in the month of August.

Her ambition had hitherto been confined to being the best of wives,—so she scolded the servants—opened no book but her book of receipts—made soup without meat—decocted cowslips, parsneps, currants, and gooseberries, which, if not good wine, were very tolerable vinegar

True, blacks put on their masters' demanded Sambo charade. True, some charaders became their Sambo act. […] But many slaves partially repelled their masters' psychological invasion.

[T]he motorcycle drivers say that new helmets are too expensive and instead have been found wearing pumpkin-like calabashes – dried fruit shells usually used to carry water – cooking pots tied with string or strips of rubber from old tyres.