"Should the company be chiefly formed of the illiterate and the immature of both sexes, stories depicting the embarrassment of unnaturally round-bodied mandarins, the unpremeditated flight of eccentrically-garbed passers-by into vats of powdered rice, the despair of guardians of the street when assailed by showers of eggs and overripe lo-QUATS, or any other variety of humiliating pain inflicted upon the innocent and unwary, never fail to win approval.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc