But Robert had been cheeriness itself, had told them to buck up and think of England, reminding them that moaning wasn’t going to beat the Jerries.

Just recently the Department of Agriculture discovered that the fair existed and was a subject of scientific study. It has barely started to explore the terra incognita of fairdom.

The Macclesfield Bank is not a group of islands, but an extensive submerged atoll situated southeast of the Paracel Islands. Water depths range from 4 to 45 fathoms over the bank. Although the features lie below the surface of the sea, the People’s Republic of China has claimed these “islands,” which it terms the Chungsha Islands.]

A live-sawn log kept as a unit is known as a boule