The orca spoke in the odd grammatical tense used either to describe dreams, or to make statements so true they were apodictic, such as All things die or Before my conception I did not exist.

According to the venerable woodcuts which form the frontispieces to Primers of the dark ages, the paths of learning run through […] pleasant pastures agreeably diversified, and peopled by joyous hoop-trundlers and kite-flyers,

Now by my foule, Diggon, I lament / The haplesle mischiefe that has thee hent; / Nethelesse thou feest my lowly faile, / That froward Fortune doth ever availe ….

The Yankees entered the farm league business in 1929 when they purchased Chambersburg in the Class D Blue Ridge League.