They have gained this reputation by being intensely rivalrous and obsessively factionate, however, so the impression that the placing litany of questions is primarily incorporative in its intent is, I think, largely erroneous.

Briefly, this story tells of the adventures of a commercial traveler afflicted with stampomania. This amiable and garrulous gentleman falls in with a druggist somewhere in the states and at each recurring trip manages to entangle himself and the weak knight of the pestle in the enchanting and entrancing mysteries of philately […]

If Laddies are opening a new betting shop and get McCririck to cut the ribbon, thousands of people will turn up.

Then vvas the faire Dodonian tree far ſeene, / Vpon ſeauen hills to ſpread his gladſome gleame, / And conquerours bedecked vvith his greene, / Along the bancks of the Auſonian ſtreame: […]