Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.

As a child, he made kubaneh, a Yemenite-Jewish yeast bread, with his mother, whose father was a baker for the Moroccan king.

How pleasant to please and how joyful to rove With a maiden like thee in thy sweet Kelvin Grove ! When the bright sun descends in the far crimson west, And the lover's soft vows are more easy express'd ;— While the shadowy stream is meändering by, And the pale lamp of night is hung out in the sky, And the nightingale sings from the blossoming tree ; O then !it were bliss, love !to wander with thee.

Overhearing the insult, he stalked woundedly out of the room.