The Journal of Education, of Ohio (date unknown), informs us that in one of the schools of that state, consisting of five-and-thirty boys and girls, there are nine little boys who quid, and five little girls who smoke tobacco. The Journal seems annoyed by that statistical fact. ‘We say nothing about the quidding,’ it wails aloud; ‘but when we think of the smokeresses, we almost fancy ourselves at the Sandwich Islands.’

I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.

He read old almanacs at the book-stalls on the quays, and he began to frequent another café, where more newspapers were taken and his postprandial demitasse cost him a penny extra, and where he used to con the tattered sheets for curious anecdotes, freaks of nature, and strange coincidences.

The game was cancelled because of snow on the field.