[N]ot that he gets drunk, for he is a very pious man, but he is always muddy.

Children, sit down on your fannies, and eat your lunch.

Hundreds of these Golden Ornaments — Rank-decorations, Family Medals, Gift- pieces, Amulets, or whatever else they may have been — have no letters at all, either runish or otherwise.

Even more disconcerning to the ninjas were the four-dozen black leather-clad men and women wearing masks and wielding sabres that now surrounded them.