He had a cold last week.

At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

The yuanyang are the male and female respectively of Anas galericulata, commonly called by Europeans Mandarin duck. These beautiful water-fowl manifest when mated a singular degree of attachment for each other, and they have hence been elevated into the emblems of connubial affection and fidelity.

oh where is it now, that pink frillsome thing…