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The Puritans raised corn (or maize) which they got from the Indians; and they soon learned the virtues of nocake—a name derived from the Indian of noohkik. Nocake was made of selected Indian corn, parched in hot ashes, then well sifted and thoroughly pulverized. It was mixed with cold water and drunk. The early Virginians knew it as rockahomonie. Nocake was the rudiment with which the New England folk began the study of foods prepared from Indian corn.

Though many a year has passed away, / None have seen Rhys since that day! / Does he dance and does he sing / For ever in a Fairy Ring?

The interesting factette to emerge from the wreckage is that the Co-op group paid out £150,000 for unfair dismissal to [a] former employee.