Employers are like horses - they require management.
By midmorning eight of the horses stood tied and the other eight were wilder than deer, scattering along the fence and bunching and running in a rising sea of dust as the day warmed, coming to reckon...
If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
{Babbington} What did {the Doctor, Stephen} do to you, sir?{Captain Aubrey} Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball out of the small of my back. It must have been when I turned to hail for...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow,...
All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to...
The value of money is subjective, depending on age. At the age of one, one multiplies the actual sum...
In fact, none of us knows how he ever managed to get his LLB in the first place. Maybe they're...
Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No...
Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me,...
But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.