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All I Know Of Birds To This Date Is That Sparrows Are The Ones That Are Not Pigeons.

English Bohemianism Is A Curiously Unluscious Fruit. ... Inside This Hothouse, Huge Lascivious Orchids Slide Sensuously Up The Sweating Windows, Passion-flowers Cross-pollinate In Wild Heliotrope Abandon, Lotuses Writhe With Poppies In The Sweet Warm Beds, Kumquats Ripen, Open And Plop Flatly To The Floor-and Outside, In A Neat, Trimly-hoed Kitchen-garden, English Bohemians Sit In Cold Orderly Rows, Like Carrots.

There Are Many Mysteries In Old Age But The Greatest, Surely, Is This: In Those Adverts For Walk-in Bathtubs, Why Doesn't All The Water Gush Out When You Get In?

Ethnically, The Germans Are Teutonic... Being Made Up Of Vandals, Gepidae, And Goths, All Of Whom Emigrated - South From Sweden In About 500 Bc; Why They Emigrated Is Not Exactly Clear, But Many Scholars Believe It Was Because They Saw The Way Sweden Was Going, I.e. Neutral.

Malta Is The Only Country In The World Where The Local Delicacy Is The Bread.