If you'd rather be beachside than poolside, scuba, surfing and fishing are all easily arranged from here.

But women, I suggested, when he had finished proclaiming booze the sole end of existence. Wimmen! He thumped his pot upon the bar and orated eloquently. Wimmen is a thing my edication 'as learnt me t' let alone.

It will have been observed that the names of the Tyrian, Sidonian, and Berytian learned men and authors of the time—Antipater, Apollonius, Boëthus, Diodotus, Philo, Hermippus, Marinus, Paulus, Maximus, Porphyrius—are without exception either Latin or Greek.

Nor, if we turn to the present, is the evidence much stronger which is offered by the gens de couleur whom you may see in the quadroon quarter this afternoon, with Ichabod legible on their murky foreheads through a vain smearing of toilet powder, dragging their chairs down to the narrow gateway of their close-fenced gardens, and staring shrinkingly at you as you pass, like a nest of yellow kittens.