[…] whistling reeds, that rutty Iordan laues, And with their verdure his white head embraues, To chide the windes,

Atherton's spiel sounded exactly like what Australian's were saying to me almost every day. Was this vestigial bitterness from years of Aussie humiliations in his own career? Had he turned into a Pommy-basher?

The two outside roads have one ton transporter hand-operated cranes, but there is provision for the installation of cranes on the inner roads also.

She saw that Velvin, if a stubborn man, was a very simple and very goodhearted one, and she prided herself on her skill in sweetly reasonable persuasion of the lower classes.