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After this precaution the King & Queen proceeded to the annual meeting of the Manx Tynwald, claimed by Manxmen to be the world's oldest parliament. Seated on a red, canopied throne atop a 20-foot mound, which Vikings had built a millennium ago, the royal visitors bravely heard 15 laws read to the assembled people in the nearly extinct Manx language (which their Majesties do not understand). They were given $1,000,000 to help defray the cost of the war. (Unlike the rest of Britain, the Isle of Man, which enjoys nominal home rule, remained at war with...
...everyone is as careful as Britain's King & Queen to appease the pixies. Recently a Manx taxi driver, instead of saying "Evie, manyagh veggar!" when he reached the Ballasalla Bridge, cried: "Bah!" As he crossed the bridge, the door of his taxi came open and he shot...
...Irish, in Manx estimation, were scapegoats pure: "Hit him again; he's Irish...
...always good and not always bad, the gremlins show traits of character reaching down through the centuries in fairyland* between the profane and mundane world and the world of the supernatural and religious. The fenodyree (Manx brownie) from the Isle of Man has a diminutive Lincolnshire cousin, Robin-Round-Cap. These little folk are clumsy, hairy and industrious but, like pixies of more personal charm, have often been known to thresh a barnful of wheat for people they liked. The flying fomorians, of Celtic origin, have wings like the gremlins, but are larger and warlike. The hordes of pigmies which...
...Manx chickens are not really rumpless. They are a freak breed born practically without tail feathers, thus look rumpless when viewed in profile...