I neither rode recklessly, flirted'desperately, carried clothes imperially, turned men's heads, broke their hearts, sang divinely, athletized, literatized, antagonized.

A collection of Scotch red deer and fallow deer heads testified to the magnificent hunting that is obtained among the virgin forests of New Zealand, and specimens of trout--rainbow, salmon, fario, and fontinalis--taken from the mountain-fed streams that intersect the country from one end to the other appealed to the fishing enthusiast.

A rubber duck and other toys were afloat in the bath.

But the area wasn't so bad - Lower Grope, further west, was the rough bit. The place of hooligan shennanigans and vandal scandals. Where louts shout and thugs mug. Dog rough...