SCENE: A lonely road somewhere in France.
Diminutive Warrior (suddenly confronted with ferocious specimen of the local fauna). "LUMME! IF IT AIN'T THE REGIMENTAL COAT-OF-ARMS COME TO LIFE!"
"The Wady Ghuzzeh, or river of Gaza, a stream-bed which makes no large assertion on the map. But it 'just divides the desert from the sewn.'"—Sunday Paper.
Being, as you might say, a mere thread.
Extracts from an article entitled "London Sights: An Australian's Impressions":—
"When all is over and we are back where the coyote cries ... when the Rockies are looking down at us from their snowy heights, and the night-time silence steals across the fir-bordered foothills...."—Sunday Times.
Yet what is all this to the longing of the Canadian for the nightly howl of the kangaroo and the song of the wombat flitting among the blue-gums in his native bush?