... to the useful, though this is not any means to affirm that useful Christmas presents will find purchasers plentiful as blackberries. No, indeed, for this year those old customers who were wont to purchase only nseful presents will now buy nothing at all ...

... blackbeetles. Piggy, as we dubbed the new-comer, made short work of the beetles, and in two months time they were as scarce as blackberries in January. Learning that the hedgehog loved a paunch, I bought one, but I could not persuade Piggy to touch it, and it ...