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• Precisely where the Crowning Moment of Funny falls in 'A Code of Morals' depends on the reader.
  • "The General swore. Was ever General Officer addressed as 'dear' before?"
  • And a Crowning Moment of Awesome for General Bangs, who never took revenge on the heliographing Jones: "All honour unto Bangs, for ne'er did Jones thereafter know/ By word or act official who read off that helio."
• In "The Ballad of Boh Da Thone":
  • A Hindu bureaucrat describes his killing the title character as "by High Education brought pressure to bear." In fact, the obese clerk accidentally fell on top of the poor bandit prince:

And twenty stone from a height discharged Are bad for a Boh with a spleen enlarged.

• • "So you kept that jade earring!"