Rappai says he has other things to worry about apart from food.... Rappai - the man with the giant appetite - has been warned by medics to curb his food intake.

The mother turned a blind eye to her son’s mischief as she expected him not to repeat it.

In a sense these sections form refrains to the two couplets, in which two types of material are used: birdsong, consisting of the calls and cries of the alpine chough and the raven, and passages representing the flight of the alpine chough and the flight of the golden eagle.

With an engine of the weight of a Garratt heading a long heavy coal train over such a road great skill in handling was necessary; not only by the enginemen but by the guard; the secret, of course, was to keep the couplings as taut as possible throughout the train to avoid severe snatches.