Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing fizz and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles.

Unfortunately, the pig sent to clear the obstruction got lodged in a tight bend, adding to the problem.

A pen-knife, a bunch of keys, a Bland dollar, a punched dime, five pennies, a poker-chip and two cloves falling from a trousers-pocket to the floor in the dead waste and middle of the night, when a man is trying to get to bed without awaking his wife, will make more racket than a young and playful cyclone dallying with a tinware factory.

The prosecution argued that the defendant's exact repetition of his account of the events several times demonstrated the rehearsal of his story.