Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire, and was breaking it to get the seeds.

Come, now, take yourselves off, like good boys and girls, he said; and the whole assemblage, dark and light, disappeared through a door into a large verandah, followed by Eva, who carried a large satchel, which she had been filling with apples, nuts, candy, ribbons, laces, and toys of every description, during her whole homeward journey.

It was restored to near as-built condition by EWS ahead of the RAIL/EWS Toton Open Day in August 1998, and was withdrawn from traffic in December 1999, passing to the National Collection.

The old saw that if it feels too good it's probably illegal, immoral, or fattening is no joke. Deep down inside, many of us believe it. In fact, our entire culture, with its roots in Puritanism, has a distinct antipleasure bias.