I should like first to thank Cristina Gutierrez, of my office staff, for her tireless and quick-handed work transcribing the hundreds of tape-cassettes on which the various drafts of the present work have been dictated.

They had to sell farm; after three consecutive crop failures, they just couldn’t make a go of it.

When they became a formal club the rowers built a small boathouse.

She was overladen with guns , some were unbreeched , and her port - holes left open