And when we are not leaving the original in-dwellers out of our stories of peopling the continent and developing the American population, we have been misdiscovering, misnaming, and misunderstanding them.

How do you sell your brandy? We sell it by the gallon, and not by the bottle.

Her voice came, muffled, as if from the back of the top of his head. The ventriloquial effect was startling.

Soon, thick dark tufts of hair began to spread across his scalp, hanging over his ears, a moor of unruly divots which he was first unable to tame and with time willingly cultivated.