So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden. After a while, the old man came in, and sat down beside the fire, and takes one of the bannocks, and snaps it through the middle.

In Zhengyang county in May 1923, for instance, local gentry in the southern district built a county militia in response to rampant banditry.

That was a real slobber knocker of a football game.

Nor moody Beggars, ſtaruing for a time / Of pell-mell hauocke, and confusion.