Whatever they are else, they are always chastisements; and correction respects faults.

A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon.

Horace lost his forty-shilling Akubra hat and did not stop for it and the Elizabeth Street cable tram sliced it in half before he had gone another block.

If you're sure of a gut shot, the buck will usually be bedded within five hundred yards of where it was hit.