“In my no-no spot.” “Your no-no spot? You're joking, right?” She stared at him, unblinking. “You know what, Ginny? I, uh, actually think I have to go. The bus. Taking the bus out of here. Or maybe the Blue Line.”

In ensembles, a set of tuned gongs called yunluo (literally “cloud gong”) may be heard; these are small gongs several inches in diameter, and ten yunluo are hung on a single wooden rack.

Fortunately, the CrossCountry train did not derail when it struck the mud. It could easily have been much worse.

The gular (ficus glomerata), the bargad, which is another name for the banyan, and the pakar (ficus venosa) are all members of the fig tribe, the Levites of the forest. The gular yields a larger fruit than the banyan, and is a good deal used as a food. In the extremely hot weather of this year, the writer found that mysterious holes were being dug by night round the roots of a large gular tree in his compound. On inquiring into the cause, he found that the servants were incising the roots to obtain the juice which they said they drank to keep up their strength during the heat. [From The Statesman.]