Sasha usually looked at the window, which faced the street, and tonight, as she continued her story, was rippled with rain.

NEWYORKER: Found Objects

It is hard now to believe that in 1902 a tiger was shot under the billiard table (that the big cat emerged from a circus rather than virgin rain-forest, and was shot by a school headmaster, makes the story no less exotic).

ECONOMIST: Pukkah hotels

It was a one-ox, two-story household, and there were a bunch of crusty chickens huddling under a tree to escape the rain.

NEWYORKER: Swimming