A paper-blurrer, who on all occasions, / For all times, and all season, hath such trinkets / Ready in the deck

Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, / And the gods yield you for 't.

At Bolivia's Laguna Colorado, so-called because of the blood-red tinge to the water, the world's largest population of James's flamingoes may be caught by unseasonable freezing, with birds trapped permanently in the ice.

The conductor emerged from the wings, tall and lean in his tailcoat, and moved stalkily across the platform; applause began in the front rows and worked its way back gradually to the far reaches of the hall, where people were talking in a sudden frenzy, as if they had a great deal to get said before silence was enjoined upon them.