... Christmas-time or Twelfth Night to fire their guns through the branches, pour cider round the roots of the trees, place pieces of cake soaked in cider in the forks of the trees, and then . ing some variant of t he t raditional wassailing song: H ere's to ...

... might have been set a much harder task; a match-box, with its easy transition to matches and so to light in general, was almost easy, what our airmen call, as I understand, a piece of cake. The author himself thought lightly of it and would doubtless ...

... WOULD HAVE BEEN EASY Squadron Leader Cable, pilot of the helicc:f)ter, said on his return: “It would have been a piece of cake to have got the man off had he been there. We arrived over the light within an hour of our take-off and saw a swimmer on the ...