It was a ghastly morning, with the rain beating down in sheets.

In the days of Queen Anne, Dick explains, dissenting sects like the Presbyterians were under a ban and had to educate their children in the fields, behind the blackberry hedges, so in the blackberrying season, the children's lips and cheeks were stained black with the fruit.

The communication between the medium and the human solicitants, described by both the medium and Pu, was conducted through informal yet polite conversation.

Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate, / In your auengement and dispiteous rage […].