Er, sorry about that. Trouble getting the ſ to show up properly. Using the Unicode character directly didn't work, the move didn't get posted. Using the hex HMTL entity (ſ) didn't work either: ſ. Only the decimal version (ſ) works: ſ.
A country road. A tree. Evening. Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again. As before. Enter Vladimir. Estragon:[Giving up again.] Nothing to be done. Dragons arrive.
When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. And then the dragons arrived.