City mice and country mice -- "I've got a little (Canadian) list" -- Nicaraguan journal -- Arguments -- Memorable meals: a first course -- Different generations -- Out of work -- Bears -- The closet -- On grannies and the need for mustard plasters -- Getting sober -- People and their machines and vice versa -- Our man in africa -- A lady musician named Joan -- Fighting back -- Spring, happy spring -- Violence in the national game -- Memories -- Our woman in Greece -- Occasions in the life of a host -- The other solitude -- The morningside book of slightly amended, nearly always Canadian, verse -- Memorable meals: the second course -- The language judge -- The things you figure out.