The boy can seriously wicketkeep, but he can only just bat, and like Darren Berry before him he was born in the wrong generation.

Margins should be left everywhere after rough grinding so as to the “misgrind” can be avoided; thereby the fine grinding is needed.

Such systems dwarf the pterodactylane 50 ...

The land more or less devoted to viticulture in the department of Gironde may be divided into six categories: (1) Alluvial or palus land, (2) rich, strong soil, (3) marly calcareous land, (4) gravelous land, (5) siliceous, and (6) sablo-argillaceous land.[…]Gravelous land is the most favorable for vine culture as regards the quality of the production, and may be divided into two classes: (1) On gravelous land composed of stones or quartz, being about three feet in depth, and having a subsoil of clay and argil or alios, the best growths of Médoc and Graves are cultivated; (2) sandy, gravelous land, forming a composition of sand and stones, based on an inert sand or upon aliotic layers, is not propitious to the vine in consequence of the humidity of the subsoil.