She didn’t have a lot of money, but she had enough to get along.

A nooser, lithe and active as an eel, slid down the pad-rope of his decoy and, waiting until the attention of the captive had been momentarily distracted, slipped a thick noose of rawhide around the hind ankle of his prize.

He reached for a weapon that was on the table.

The bottom of rice will be a thick crust of rice, called Tadig.