Besides inflicting upon my own excited imagination the belief that I made noise enough to be heard by the inmates of the house who were likely to be rising at the time, I had the misfortune to attract the notice of a little house-dog, such as we call in that part of the world a “fice,’ on account of its being not only the smallest species of the canine race, but also, because it is the most saucy, noisy, and teasing of all dogs.

Your fathers toforne you have cleped such lusty lyvenges after the flessh, “passions of desyre,” which are innominable tofore God and man both.

He believes the contactees (those who claim to have actual contact with beings from outer space) are actually creating a new theology.

He had to put his hands on some money— and soon.