But the Red Man denied that time, though it must always be paid for, could always be paid for in money. - Avram Davidson

Hmm...hmm. A stag hunt. To what elaborate lengths the equestrian classes go in order to draw out the simple business of butchering venison.

How is your new woman? Your new-est one, I sh'd say."
Jack shrugged. "Good enough. They all got the same thing."
"Yeh-es," Jeff nodded, judiciously. "But some of 'm's got more of it than others.

Well, rather an ague than a pox. A pox is something one wishes on editors…strange breed, editors. The females all have names like Lulu Ammabelle Smith or Minnie Lundquist Bloom, and the males have little horns growing out of their brows.