The administrators, growing tired of such idiocy, put a new policy in place.

How far progress has been made in liquidating the locomotive stock of the old companies may be judged from the shrinkage in their numbers, by some 50 per cent. at the end of 1931, to about 35 per cent. in 1938.

There is still that yearning for news from Nantucket that there was when the whale-ships stopped for a gam out in the far-distant Pacific Ocean […]

Oh well, your loss big feller. Just lead the way my old lemon squeezer, there's a good man.