The suitcase was old. The brown leather was battered and scuffed. Two hanks of clothesline had been wrapped around it and tied in large, clownish grannies.

Here, before a feast that would prick the dead with appetite, were shapes of beasts with heads of men, asses, elephants, bulls, horses, swine, foxes, riverhorses, dromedaries; […]

1885 “A Missing Indianapolitan”, in The Chicago Daily Tribune, 1885-10-17, retrieved 2014-10-03

At-will employment gives the company and the employee the right to terminate the relationship for any reason, and is recognized, with limitations, nationwide.