The road from Jerusalem to Jericho was very bad, and if you went too
close to the edge you were likely to go over the precipice; indeed,
many lives were lost in this way.
[Illustration: "I'll bet I'm the first bloke to loop the loop in a
lorry."]
One day a lorry toppled over and fell at least a hundred feet. When the
rescuers got down to it, expecting to find a mangled corpse, they were
surprised to hear a well-known Cockney voice from under the debris,
exclaiming: "Blimey, I'll bet I'm the first bloke in the whole Army
wot's looped the loop in a motor-lorry."--_Sidney H. Rothschild, York
Buildings, Adelphi, W.C.2._