Sonny's knotted, distrustful face relaxed all at once. You're goddamned right about that, chummy! he exclaimed.

He figured that Canadian political leaders got only two kicks at the can, and he'd now had both of his.

What Gundling thought to himself, amid these pranks and hoaxings, we do not know. The poor soul was not born a fool; though he had become one, by college-learning, vanity, strong-drink, and the world's perversity and his own.

A system that suppresses dissent is fault-intolerant, ignorant and fragile.