The festival is celebrated on the eighth lunar month's full moon night, the most charming and picturesque night of the year, marking the end of the rice harvest in the Red River Delta around the Vietnamese capital originally.

This morning I got up, with great difficulty, at 6.30, and at 7.45 we started out for a Brigade Field Day. Did an attack from 10.30 to 2.30, but it wasn't a strenuous one for me as I was told to become a casualty soon after the 3000 yard assault began ….

Infini... what? Sorry, I catch no ball. Again, please. Infinitessimal - small, small winnings, Chin, said Clarence...

As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.