And when all men shall have adopted this enallage, the fault indeed will be banished, or metamorphosed, but with it will go an other sixth part of every English conjugation.

the daily goad urging him to the daily toil

Suddenly, I was certain what I had found had been the rest of the dead girl. I told the others about it, then added, God Almighty. It must have been eating her. / I think I know this creature, said Gwennie, and we all looked at her. It called a wendigo. A most terrible thing. […] / Gwennie shook her head. It is an evil creature. I hear of it once when I traveled far from here. The Ojibwe brave who told me about creature say it is a beast of the north, of the cold.

And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.