Herrmann, like many Wagnerites, started listening to opera as a youngster: My father played the old 78 rpm recordings for me, and had me read the Edda [Old Norse sagas, one of Wagner's major sources for his 'Ring'].

For instance, on the oxo cube 'tube' the weasler or porter has changed into the less descriptive stationman […]

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Dogs should be warmly but airily housed; heartily, but not heatingly, fed — old Indian meal, mixed with oatmeal, suppawn, is the best general food, with a small quantity of salt, which is a preventive against worms […]