Well, where you all come a gutser is, over here, we think we're born to rule YOU.

Toby opened the game with a magistral flourish.

They sat looking out at the dark, at the square of light the kitchen lantern threw on the ground outside the door, with a hunched shadow of Grampa in the middle of it.

Once free his immediate reaction was to swear angrily, 'By God's teeth! I've been disgraced. I could swear I've eaten the Devil himself!'