Surgery is speed and decision. A good surgeon saves his trembling till after he's killed the patient when it can do him no harm. - Alexander Knox

Four beautiful maids </br> Were all in love with me. </br> They said that I could have but one </br> So I went off to sea.

First there was nothing, then the nothing became blue. This was sky and it was one blue. Then it became a mixture of pale blue and dark blue and the dark blue was heavier and came together, and it found it was water. Then the mud in the water came together, and it found it was an island. The waves in the water shaped the island like the back of a turtle and made it smooth. So it was learned that smooth things could be made of mud so why not make them? So, out of the mud of the island two people were made, smooth and good to look at. They were Wendet, people of the island. Everyone knows these people were made but who made them? No one knows. It was too long ago. Not even the spirit of the oldest tree, or a mountain, or the moon could tell you because even those old spirits are too young to have been there.

The high Arctic had more snow that year than anyone remembered.