But if so, why do you see so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers? I think they enjoy them because they are simply so different, so mechanical, so hot, oily and clanky, so dirty, so 'analogue' in a digital world. They are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness. Kids love that.

Consarn ye, take thet ! " And he banged each of the inoffensive animals in the sides with the stock of his gun

Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.

They ought to be lethal-chambered, nasty little sewer-rats, one of 'em's saved them the trouble at any rate.