And on a Cuſhion ſtuffed with Flocks, / She clapt her dainty pair of Docks.

Vance's assignment is to patrol a stretch of the Yangtze between Chungking and Ichang and to protect American missionaries, tankers and freighters that fly the American flag.

The children will not go to church, few will attend Sunday school, but they will attend a nonsectarian Bible school.

An avowed aim of the 1962 Transport Act was to concentrate the BRB's attention on running trains.