Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie

For many years I've been visiting an old horse. Every day, come rain or shine, I'd go see her, an apple, pear or carrots in my pocket, occasionally a brush to groom her. I enjoyed sitting on the wall, just watching her. Today I visited and she wasn't there.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.