In some households it is still given a place of honour on the sideboard or coffee table, not necessarily to be read but to record the family history of hatches, matches and dispatches.

Big School is more fun than Primary School, said Flossie to her mother as they both sat at the kitchen table, eating their lunch together. Isn't it, Mum?

Terrible shall the vengeance of the Tisroc be: even now. But kill me, and the burnings and torturings in these northern lands shall become a tale to frighten the world a thousand years hence.

The glories of Mary held his soul captive : spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolising the preciousness of God's gifts to her soul, rich garments, symbolising her royal lineage, her emblems, the lateflowering plant and lateblossoming tree, symbolising the agelong gradual growth of her cultus among men.