For there upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediæval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.

By 1600, the ratio of pikers to gunmen was roughly 3:2. By mid-century the ratio was only 1:2, and by 1670 there was just one piker to every three gunmen in the French Army.

In the year since the announcement, the olinguito has gone from literal unknown to being surprisingly well-documented through photos and videos shot by amateur naturalists, bird watchers, and others, a kind of crowd-sourced science.

Such a one is in Houndsditch with us, but it is a Polony shoe with a bell, that will not be left for ten pound, because he hath it by inheritance.