But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window […]

The screeching of brakes, the monotonous blare of motor horns, the clip-clip of shoes on slippery pavements, the rustling of wet mackintoshes were all part of the great metropolis.

[…] at that moment the whole professoriate was absorbed in one of those great educational crises which from time to time shake a university to its base.

We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme.