The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].

And so, my lord protector, see them guarded / And safely brought to Dover where, inshipped, / Commit them to the fortune of the sea.

Contrasting with this nip-cheese policy as to all things railway, the Estimates Committee recommends a simpler system of control of expenditure on classified roads, with the emphasis more on achievement and less on control.

The cure for this ill is not to sit still, / Or frowst with a book by the fire;