“And who umpired?”
“Hob.”
IV
“Money was so scarce in that country that the babies had to cut their teeth on certified checks.”
—Bluebeard for Happiness.
“The cauldrified and chittering truth.”
—The Ettrick Shepherd.
“As I was a-tellin’ you, when I got switched off,” said Adam, in the starlit road, “I found gold dust in ’Pache Cañon nigh onto a year ago. Not much—just a color—but it set me to thinkin’.”