'Roll another fat one, Rashid,' Dooley said, looking over. 'Another giant bifta for the tea-break.'

The room was arranged by low wooden partitions into bays, where eight or ten men could sit together and rest their pewters and glasses on the narrow tables between.

I call these mossy balls Jökla-mýs, literally glacier mice, and you will have noted, Sir, that rolling stones can gather moss.

In my own case, I was beaten about the head by their wings, so we have had a remarkable exhibition of their various methods of offence. It has been touch and go for our lives, said Lord John, gravely, and I could not think of a more rotten sort of death than to be outed by such filthy vermin.