He possessed an expressive face and manly figure, with a native buoyancy and humour which stood him in good stead in the character of Macheath, while he had the further gift of dominating a tragic scene with an assumption of tyrannic fire which must have been greatly admired by the theatre-goers of his time.

His table was resorted to by all the luxurious feasters, and his house was open to all comers and goers at Athens.

His mare, too, was in the height of fettle and one of the fastest goers in the county.

Straight goer to hounds and straight in every other capacity, I should say.

Judging by the number of boys who turned up, the percentage of church-goers among the parents must have been very small.

But Creston was a safe old Orthodox town, the roads were filled with returning church-goers like ourselves, and mother drove like a man.