Carburetor heat and mixture controls are also located on the console. A small electric fan sits on the floor to demist the bubble. It also comes in handy to deheat the pilot.

The two dogs were beagles, shortlegged and frantic, leaping in and out of the chest-high fall of snow, or plowing their noses through it and furrowing snow up and past their ears, their tails spinning, then looking up with white brows and whiskers, gnomic and hoary-faced as little old men.

Edith Sitwell, in her charming history of Bath, lists, at the time of Jonathan Swift's sojournal there, just a few of the sects available, […] . There were Antinomians, Hederingtonians, Theaurian Joanites, Seekers, Waiters, Reevists, Brownists, Baronists, Wilkinsonians, Familists, Ranters, Muggletonians, and the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. They are all now forgotten: the law of extinction seems to apply as ruthlessly to sects as it does to species.

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