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"Each branch of the family tenaciously held to a particular locality--old Jolyon swearing by Dartmoor, James by Welsh, Swithin by Southdown, Nicholas maintaining that people might sneer, but there was nothing like New Zealand! As for Roger, the 'original' of the brothers, he had been obliged to invent a locality of his own, and with an ingenuity worthy of a man who had devised a new profession for his sons, he had discovered a shop where they sold German; on being remonstrated with, he had proved his point by producing a butcher's bill, which showed that he paid more than any of the others."

Сегодня в самом деле видел в магазине - правда, не седло, а ногу барашка, в двух вариантах: ту самую новозеландскую, а рядом, украшенную флажком - исландскую, дороже.

На чём, ну, на чём они её там пасут?! В парниках, отапливаемых геотермально?

(no subject)

"Each branch of the family tenaciously held to a particular locality--old Jolyon swearing by Dartmoor, James by Welsh, Swithin by Southdown, Nicholas maintaining that people might sneer, but there was nothing like New Zealand! As for Roger, the 'original' of the brothers, he had been obliged to invent a locality of his own, and with an ingenuity worthy of a man who had devised a new profession for his sons, he had discovered a shop where they sold German; on being remonstrated with, he had proved his point by producing a butcher's bill, which showed that he paid more than any of the others."

Сегодня в самом деле видел в магазине - правда, не седло, а ногу барашка, в двух вариантах: ту самую новозеландскую, а рядом, украшенную флажком - исландскую, дороже.

На чём, ну, на чём они её там пасут?! В парниках, отапливаемых геотермально?