… they entered a dismal-looking parlour, whose brick-red walls and ditto curtains were scantily lighted by a single lamp, though it was of the last new patent—[…]

As one Jamaat-e-Islami member observed, the state may not have declared it as against Islam, but 'Pakistan's leaders and army [began] acting unIslamically so some people who go to wage jihad against America will realize they must fight Pakistan too because Pakistan is helping America'.

He recollected a gentleman in Admont who had a dog that gave birth to five young, three of which were cretinic, the other two feeble.

The corner grocer delivered the week′s order in brown paper bags and the bread man made deliveries every morning in his horse-drawn van. He′d give the kids buns and let you ride for a couple of stops. The iceman delivered fresh fish, rabbits and, of course, ice for the ice chest, which many people still owned rather than a fridge. I was a happy little Vegemite.