I love her well enough to tup her, I suppose. A dangerous bit of business, that. She is as fertile as a bloody alluvial plain.

But as the circuitousness of this route and the extremely slow running required over the Midland-North Stafford link have increased overall journey times of the trains concerned to 4 hr. 38 min. down and 4½ hr. up, they are hardly likely to prove very attractive to through passengers.

The greater part of the Chiaus's do the Duty of Serjeants

To meet and sit in Parliament: The place for these, and for the rest Of flowers, was thy spotlesse breast.