THIS WAY AND THAT WAY
"Serpent, I say again!" repeated the Pigeon...and added with a
kind of sob, "I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit
them!"
"I haven't the least idea what you're talking about," said Alice.
"I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've
tried hedges," the Pigeon went on without attending to her; "but
those serpents! There's no pleasing them!"
LEWIS CARROLL: Alice in Wonderland.
"And what," inquired Lord Peter Wimsey of Bunter the following morning, "did the Superintendent want last night?"
"He wished to ascertain, my lord, whether the hanging cactus could have been removed from its containing pot during the events of last week."
"What, again? I thought he'd realised that it couldn't. The marks of the brass polish should have told him
