Miss Theresa Samuels . . . is accused by the Post Office authorities of sending scurrilous letters to young women whose engagements to marry had been publicly announced. . . . Those who received the poison pen letters were not willing to court the notoriety that would follow the prosecution of the case.

⁽¹⁾ Sweet Fennel (Fœniculum dulce) or Finnocchio, still one of the most popular vegetables in Italy, was apparently introduced into this country in early Stuart times. ⁽²⁾ Our native Fennel thrives in any soil, but Finnocchio needs a rich moist soil, frequent watering in times of drought, and when the bases of the stems swell they have to be partially earthed up, i.e. the tubers half covered.

After about an hour and a half he broke out of the trees into a clearing, and in the clearing was a logging camp, and sitting on a block of wood in front of the cook-shack was a bald-headed cookee peeling potatoes.

Create him Prorex of Affrica, That he may win the Babilonians hearts, Which will reuolt from Perſean gouernment, Unleſſe they haue a wiſer King than you.