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A house for sale is advertised as being in the 'Surrey Highlands'. the hint of Ghillies and Fhairson swearing a feud is a bit romantic for a county whose highest hill (Leith) is only just over 1,000 feet if you count the tower at the top but it is better founded than an estate agent's lure I once saw - 'The Essex Highlands'; top people there are about four hundred feet above sea-level. Another Surrey builder's inducement, to a colony near Box Hill, was 'Live on the Roof of the World'. This breeds the sort of confusion that prompted the ballad-writer's query 'Ye highlands and ye lowlands, O where hae ye been?'
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![Humour through the Ages
How Sulaimān the merchant, while at meet with the Shah Tahmāsp, being asked if the egg of the desert quail set before him did mock the nostrils of anticipation with the perfumes of decay, did reply that, on the contrary, a considerable proportion of it did indeed unlock the casket of satisfaction with the golden key of delectability.
[From a MS of Nizami]](https://chrisbeetles.com/storage/27985/conversions/1wbvkld0068x-masonry.jpg)
![Humour through the Ages
Toyo Mitsuhito the poet acts strangely in depositing rice from bowl on head: when questioned as to meaning of uncustomary procedure, makes explanation that was under erroneous impression that said bowl contained maize.
[From a Japanese print]](https://chrisbeetles.com/storage/27984/conversions/4mp0lpqi0hp8-masonry.jpg)
