When the contents of the papers are dissolved in separate portions of water and the two solutions are then mixed, there results a “fizzy” mixture which is not hard to take. The “fiz” is due to the carbon dioxide (the chief substance desired).

The Indian military system is full of unmilitary anomalies, all productive of irresponsibility and undiscipline.

Well, there's the occasional fellow who posts to the boobfeeder groups looking for sympathetic moomees to b/f him...

'For as soon as I heard Tewkesbury tell of screams and wailings in the air, and no one to be seen,' said Elzevir, 'I guessed that some poor soul had got shut in the vault, and was there crying for his life.