Mrs Harridene accuses the said three schoolchildren of throwing bunches of seedpods onto her corrugated iron roof, having stolen the bunches of seedpods from the jacaranda tree located on her nature strip.

‘It's the Baker Street division of the detective police force,’ said my companion, gravely; and as he spoke there rushed into the room half a dozen of the dirtiest and most ragged street Arabs that ever I clapped eyes on.

Chang-hai, town of China, in the province of Kiang-nan. In this town, and the villages dependent on it, are more than 200,000 weavers of common cotton cloth. This city is situated on the south or right side of the Blue river, near its mouth, N. lat. 33 30, long. 12 121 E. of London. By English writers, it is now named Shang-hae, and described as an immense mart of foreign and domestic trade. It is one of those laid open to foreign commerce by a recent treaty between China and Great Britain. Distant about 60 ms. below Nankin.

With mines and parallels contracts the space; Then bids the battering floats his labors crown And pour their bombard on the shuddering town