Before I anſwer to the queſtion, you muſt vnderſtand, that wee make foure differences in the age of beaſts, that is to ſay, the time of ſucking, of yought, of middle age, of old age.

We have been jinxed with a vengeance. Some one has held the Indian sign on us for sure.

[A]t last Mahomed's stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer.

I slewed into the deep grass, throttled up again to regain runway speed, tried to abort the take-off and ground-looped through the perimeter fence.