Michael Waltrip, embarrassed last year at Daytona when his new Toyota team was caught in the postqualifying inspection using an illegal fuel additive, also had a great run Sunday, taking the outside pole.

“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

Eating apricots and apricating himself the while on a garden wall, his hands in his pockets, he [the poet James Thomson] forms a pretty pendant to the Horatian picture.

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