Stalking them among the bamboo might be the guiña or kodkod, a spotted cat with a dark band across its throat and large feet.

It is held that discing is as much value to lucerne as cultivation is to corn.

If Times Square nevertheless remained a metaphor for the city's changing dynamics, it was stuck in a warp of immobility, unable to push itself forward as it had in the early part of the twentieth century.

There was the river: woodland paths skirting in the evening a world of silver and grey, across which bats sketched zigzag flights. Very nice in the dimpsey light, but stuffy in the daytime.