Ida!!! It is not a common, but an ancient name in Greece, said the diako,and was borne by the wife of Lycastus and the mother of the Cretan Minos. Osmyn blushed to have been over-heard, and suffered his heart alone to repeat again the sweet and simple name of Ida.

The wind so whirled a weathercock He could not hold his tail up; The frost so nipped a throstlecock, He could not snap a snail up.

He was a footballer, hard-boned, smart-mouthed, with an eye on the quaddie at Flemington.

At the centre of this façade of one story is a porch of two stories with a tall attic and a gable of ogee outline flanked by finials.