Not Mr Hague.
2. Ought to have some testimonials...
Arthur yesterday, Arthur tomorrow, but never Arthur today.
3. Nogglewop.
Or suppose I am called upon to praise the charwoman who has just come into my house, and who certainly deserves it much more. I say - "It would be a mistake to class Mrs Higgs among the followers of Loisy; her position is in many ways different; nor is she wholly to be identified with the concrete Hebraism of Harnack". It is a splendid method, as it gives the flatterer an opportunity of talking about something else besides the subject of the flattery, and it gives the subject of the flattery a rich, if somewhat bewildered, mental glow, as of one who has somehow gone through agonies of philosophical choice of which he was previously unaware.
4. Two, who grasped their foreheads convulsively, were engaged in solving mathematical problems
Not the most famous school in Yorkshire, but it might have been.
5. And he had trudged through Yorkshire dales...
Usually seen in the NW of the country not the NE.
6. Would it were so in Afghanistan!
Disney left this bit out.
7. ...the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
Yorkshire has a lot of cathedrals these days.
8. Litre and half litre--that's all we serve.
Still relevant in 2002.
9. Moses, Goliath, and the rest of the Apostles.
Yes, Prime Minister.
10. Je me plaisois surtout aux mathématiques...
Someone known for thinking.
11. ...the gates of Kandahar.
I must go and say "hello" to the Empress.
12. ...a woman is practising howling below-stairs...
Owls are sometimes preferred to 'owls, when it comes to music.
Solutions are now available.
J.R.P., 25.2.02