He liked Tom all right... Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.

The pantomime scenes are well arranged, especially a view of house-tops, where a good deal of comic business takes place, ending with a wholesale slaughter of cats and irruption of bed-gowned and disturbed sleepers.

The offense could contrive a variety of laydowns to intensify the defense's problems.

That the bright glister of their beames cleare / Did sparckle forth great light, and glorious did appeare.