Only last week, three aggressively written pamphlets crossed my desk inveighing against the euro.

Formerly, the punishment for high treason was of a most barbarous character…. Women were burnt. A male traitor was dragged or drawn to the place of execution and hanged; but while still alive, he was cut down and disembowelled. His head was then severed from his body which was quartered. The head and quarters, which were at the Kings disposal, were usually exposed in some conspicuous place—the Temple Bar being a favourite spot—after being boiled in salt to prevent putrification and in cumin seed to prevent birds feasting on them.

[T]he tractor struggles and muggles through the overgrown tour path, the tall grass whispers on the bottom of our cage, …

They cultivate, besides, various kinds of the tomatl or loveapple, and the pistachio or earthnut.