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Here are the quotations for this week (August 18th to 24th): 1. With a mallet and a set of tweezers he knocked out mysterious wedges of wood that released the forme, picked a letter here and inserted a letter there, reading as he went along and stopping much to chuckle over his own contributions. 2. To these things are added in time, if the brother be worthy, the power of glib speech that neither man nor woman can resist when a meal or a bed is in question; the eye of a horse-coper, the skill of a cook, the constitution of a bullock, the digestion of an ostrich, and an infinite adaptability to all circumstances. 3. Then came, in the intervals of steady card play, more personal histories of adventure and things seen and suffered; panics among white folk when the blind terror ran from man to man on the Brooklyn Bridge, and the people crushed each other to death they knew not why; fires, and faces that opened and shut horribly at red-hot window-frames; wrecks in frost and snow, reported from the sleet-sheathed rescue-tug at the risk of frost-bite... The sources of our last set of extracts (July 21st to 17th) are as follows: 1. (...They clawed, they slapped, they fled, leaving behind them a trophy of banners and brasses crudely arranged round the big drum...) This is from "The Vortex" in A Diversity of Creatures.. 2. (...he heard a sound as though all the earth were humming. Then he ran as he had never run in his life before...) This is from "Red Dog" in the Second Jungle Book. 3. (...the old Queen cried the swarming cry, which to a bee of good blood should be what the trumpet was to Job's war-horse. In spite of her immense age it rang between the canyon-like frames as a pibroch rings in a mountain pass ...) This is from "The Mother Hive" in Actions and Reactions. Good summertime wishes to all John R