The smallest coin we had in Canada in early days was a dime, worth ten cents. The Indians called this coin a Bit. Our next coin, double in buying power and in size, was a twenty-five cent piece and this the Indians called Two Bits.

Then without a word she lay on her back in the bed, her dark blond pubic hair rising about her dark wet cave like dried brush about a hidden spring.

but to jig off a tune at / the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet,

The war efforts were undermined by the constant bickering between the allies.