Oh, go to hell! said Silas, and kicked open his own unlatched door.

He makes these funny, snorty, slurpy noises all the time. He's a little snorty pig. Every morning he sits at the top of the stairs and waits for me. He needs his hug before he goes downstairs.

I just schlepped around the house on Sunday.

After three days the boat brought us to Liuchow, the end of waterway traffic. From there on, it was train and truck travel. With rails salvaged ahead of the Japanese advances into North China a new line had been laid from Liuchow more than two hundred miles in the direction of Chungking.