In order to find out the class level as early as possible, a bit of coat trailing on the very first evening seems to be a good thing, provoking plenty of discussion and giving the tutor ample opportunity to study form.

True clams are said to have cardinal teeth, so named because of their proximity to the heart (the Greek kardia means heart); freshwater mussel pseudocardinals are not so positioned.

The town wall was surrounded by a moat.

As wee hunt after beasts, so Tygers and Lyons hunt after men, and have a like exercise one upon another: Hounds over the Hare; the Pike or Luce over the Tench[…].