The people thus afflicted cried out, that they saw their tormentors though invisible to every body else, in the shape of a little devil of a fawny colour, attended with spectres that had something more human in their forms.

“Hello, Gladys,” I said, shaking her by the hand. “Joffy here used to bash the bishop so much when he was a boy we all thought he would go blind.”

The Western operating authorities are wisely concentrating their main line diesel power at individual sheds, beginning with Laira, so that engine-crews do not have the rather demoralising experience of switching about constantly between the comfort and ease of diesel handling and the relative discomfort and hard work of the steam footplate, as on other Regions.

Palps incurved, quadriarticulate.